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{"title":"Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools","authors":"Joshua Sunshine, Thomas D. Latoza, C. Anslow","doi":"10.1145/2688204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2688204","url":null,"abstract":"It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools -- PLATEAU'14. This year's workshop continues its tradition of being the forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on methods, metrics, and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. PLATEAU gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of evaluation of mprogramming languages and tools. \u0000 \u0000Putting together PLATEAU 2014 was a team effort. We first thank the authors for providing the content of the program. We are grateful to the program committee who worked very hard in reviewing papers and providing feedback for authors. Finally, we thank the hosting organization SPLASH, sponsors: ACM and SIGPLAN, conference supporters, and the SPLASH Workshop Co-Chairs Stephanie Balzer and Du Li. \u0000 \u0000Workshop Overview Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. \u0000 \u0000We plan to gather the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. We are also interested in the input of other members of the programming research community working on related areas, such as refactoring, design patterns, program analysis, program comprehension, software visualization, end-user programming, and other programming language paradigms. \u0000 \u0000Main Themes and Goals Following on from the four previous workshops at SPLASH, this workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers interested in discussing usability and evaluation of programming languages and tools with respect to language design and related areas. We will consider: empirical studies of programming languages; methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation; software design metrics and their relations to the underlying language; user studies of language features and software engineering tools; visual techniques for understanding programming languages; critical comparisons of programming paradigms, such as object-oriented vs. functional; and tools to support evaluating programming languages. We have two goals: \u0000Develop and sustain a research community that shares ideas and collaborates on research related to the evaluati","PeriodicalId":426815,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123676566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empirical Comparison of Visual to Hybrid Formula Manipulation in Educational Programming Languages for Teenagers","authors":"Roxane Koitz, W. Slany","doi":"10.1145/2688204.2688209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2688204.2688209","url":null,"abstract":"Visual programming environments hold great potential for end-user programming, as they, e.g., aim at diminishing the syntactical burden and enabling a focus on the semantic aspects of coding. Hence, graphical approaches have gained attention in the context of K-12 computer science education. Scratch, as being the prime example, is a visual educational language, where even formulas are composed utilizing Lego-style blocks. However, graphical creation and manipulation of complex and nested formulas can become overly cumbersome. Thus, we propose a hybrid approach employing visual creation and textual representation of formulas. In order to evaluate the method, a usability study has been conducted, comparing Scratch to our mobile programming environment, Pocket Code. The findings, while preliminary, indicate an increased efficiency and effectiveness of the hybrid approach employed in Pocket Code in contrast to a purely visual one in Scratch for teenager users.","PeriodicalId":426815,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115539106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Usability and Suitability Survey of Features in Visual Ides for Non-Programmers","authors":"J. Rouly, Jonathan D. Orbeck, Eugene Syriani","doi":"10.1145/2688204.2688207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2688204.2688207","url":null,"abstract":"Software tools and working environments differ drastically from one domain to another. The software engineering domain is entertained by a diversity of rich integrated development environments (IDEs) that aim at simplifying the tasks and reducing the efforts of a programmer. Other domains are unfortunately not as cherished. In this paper, we survey twenty-five visual IDEs used in non-programming domains and evaluate how usable and fit they are for their domain. The goal of this research is to determine what features are needed in different domains and how they should be presented to the domain user.","PeriodicalId":426815,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128067497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wyvern: Impacting Software Security via Programming Language Design","authors":"Darya Kurilova, A. Potanin, Jonathan Aldrich","doi":"10.1145/2688204.2688216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2688204.2688216","url":null,"abstract":"Breaches of software security affect millions of people, and therefore it is crucial to strive for more secure software systems. However, the effect of programming language design on software security is not easily measured or studied. In the absence of scientific insight, opinions range from those that claim that programming language design has no effect on security of the system, to those that believe that programming language design is the only way to provide \"high-assurance software.\" In this paper, we discuss how programming language design can impact software security by looking at a specific example: the Wyvern programming language. We report on how the design of the Wyvern programming language leverages security principles, together with hypotheses about how usability impacts security, in order to prevent command injection attacks. Furthermore, we discuss what security principles we considered in Wyvern's design.","PeriodicalId":426815,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools","volume":"48 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128337146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}