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PPIG 1997

9^th Annual Workshop

3-5 January 1997

Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Programme

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Programme

Souvenirs

Fri, 3 January 1997

Guest Speaker:

Understanding Programming: The terrain, the trails and the summits
David Gilmore
Nottingham, UK

Educational Issues

So You Learned to Program at University. No Wonder the Software is Late
R. J. Dawson
Loughborough, UK
R. W. Newsham
Derby, UK
A Survey of Empirical Studies of Prolog Programming and the Transfer Effect
Babak Khazaei
Wolverhampton, UK
The Internet Software Visualization Laboratory
John Domingue & Paul Mulholland
Open University, UK

Specification Issues

The Purpose of Specification [PDF] (13K)
R. G. Stone & D. J. Cooke
Loughborough, UK
Graphical Z Specification
Nam Yap and Mike Holcombe
Sheffield University, UK
Cognitive Dimensions Applied to Modifiability within an Integrated Prototyping Environment [download .ps]
Chris Roast & Mehmet Ozcan
Sheffield Hallam, UK

The Programming Environment

Using Software Visualization Technology to Help Genetic Algorithm Designers
Trevor Collins
Open University, UK
Hidden Contexts in Object-Oriented Diagrams: Does Familiarity Breed Contempt
Ron Newsham
Derby, UK
A Small Battle with POP Guns: Simulating a Programming Project [read]
A. Blackwell & H. L. Arnold
MRC APU, Cambridge, UK

PPIG administration meeting

Sat, 4 January 1997

Guest Speaker

How design notations warp our understanding of systems design
Graham Pratten
(formerly ICL)

The Wider View

Some Problems with Context in Formal Reasoning
Judith Segal
Surrey, UK
Should Organisations View Process-Centred Approaches as Panaceas for Managing Software Development?
Jawed Siddiqi & Andy Bissett
Sheffield Hallam, UK
Natural and Cultural Pre-dispositions
Rick Osborn
Sheffield Hallam, UK

Afternoon walk in the Peak District followed by meal and a sampling of the local hostelries.

Social evening including Ceilidh and quiz.

Sun, 5 January 1997

Guest Speaker

What's the use of it all?
Nigel Birch
Human Factors, EPSRC
What is the impact of individual student differences in providing strategies to teach introductory programming
Linda Carswell
Open University, UK

Panel Discussion

Future Directions for the Pyschology of Programming
Babak Khazaei (chair), Thomas Green, Frank Wales, Jawed Siddiqi

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