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Wed, 10 April 1996

Lunch at KIHO

Opening Session

Luc Haerens Director of KaHo Sint-Lieven
Judith Segal

New Programming languages/environments

1. Cognitive Dimensions of PrologSpace
   Lindsey Ford
2. Comprehension and documentation of Smalltalk Class Libraries
   Isabelle Borne
3. Further Investigations into the transfer effect of moving from procedural to logic programming [read]
   Babak Khazaei, Jawed Siddiqi, Andreas Harnack, Rick Osborn & Chris Roast

Coffee Break

Program Understanding

4. Concepts and Methodologies for Knowledge-Based Program Understander ALPUS [read]
   Ueno Haruki
5. Visual Machines and Program Comprehension
   Josh D. Tenenberg
6. A theoretical framework for studying OO program comprehension
   Francoise Detienne, Jean-Marie Burkhardt & Susan Wiedenbeck

Demo
Isabelle Borne

Surprise official welcome & reception in the Town Hall

Sight-seeing boat-trip on the 'Leie' and the 'Lieve'

Dinner in the 'Patershol' in Restaurant 'Virus'

Thu, 11 April 1996

Invited Speaker

7. What is the knowledge that knowledge based programming is based on?: An analysis. [read]
   Pavol Navrat

Coffee Break

(Programming) Knowledge 1

8. Metaphor or Analogy: how should we see programming abstractions [read]
   Alan Blackwell
9. Goals and plans in spreadsheets and other programming tools
   Jorma Sajaniemi & Markku Tukiainen
10. The organisation of professional operative knowledge: goal-oriented categorisations
    Willemien Visser & Laurence Perron

Lunch at KIHO

Novice Programmers 1

11. The Learning Psychology of Visual Programming for Object Orientation [PDF] (28K)
    Mark Ireland, Roger Stone & Ray Dawson
12. Experiences teaching a first programming language at GPT
    Ray Dawson & R. Newsham
13. Searching for Examples: An Evaluation of an Intermediate Description Language for a Techniques Editor
    Paul Brna & Judith Good

Coffee Break

Novice Programmers 2

14. CAMUS: A Cognitive Model for Reverse Engineering-Bases Program Analysis
    Philip Vanneste , Koen Bertels & Bart De Decker
15. Moving programming teaching onto the Internet: work in progress
    Marian Petre , Blaine Price & Linda Carswelll
16. Title to be announced
    Pierre Robillard

Demo: B-Asset: A Realization of Schema-Based Spreadsheet Knowledge
Markku Tukiainen & Jorma Sajaniemi

Guided visit to the Filliers Distillery

Dinner in the 'Cours Sint-Georges', which is known as the eldest hotel in Europe

Fri, 12 April 1996

Invited Speaker

17. Programming skills, visual layout design, and unjustifiably useful testing: Three reports in the psychology of programming [read]
    Steve Draper

Coffee Break

18. Intelligent Support for Program Development
    Navrat Pavol , Maria Bielikova, Igor Koziak, Viera Rozinajova & Maria Smolarova

Panel Discussion

Lunch at KIHO

Programming Knowledge 2

19. Knowledge about working strategies and errors in software professionals: Effects of expertise and experience
    Sabine Sonnentag
20. The Role of External Information Sources in Computer Programming - A Framework for Understanding Programming Strategies
    Simon Davies
21. Data Model Comprehension: An Experiment with 3 Graphic Styles
    Joan Norbotten & Martha Crosby

Closing Session

Workshop conclusions

PPIG announcements

Closing of the workshop

A. Acke
Head of Department KIHO of KaHo Sint-Lieven

During lunches and breaks, people could sample the following beers:

• KIHO beer - a beer which they brew in KaHo Sint-Lieven, (6 to 8 degrees)
• Westmalle Tripel and Westmalle Dubbel - two beers which are still made by the monks in the monastery of Westmalle (near Antwerp)
• Hoegaarden, Kriek, Leffe and Stella - four beers which are made by Interbrew in Leuven, the third largest brewery in the world.

We could also taste the delicious chocolate which was provided by Daskalides (famous Belgian Chocolate factory) and the belgian cheese of the monastry of Westmalle.

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