For creative tasks, programmers face a choice: Use a GUI and sacrifice flexibility, or write
code and sacrifice ergonomics? To obtain both flexibility and ease of use, a number of …

Live programming is a paradigm in which the programming environment continually
displays runtime values. Program synthesis is a technique that can generate programs or …

Direct manipulation interfaces provide intuitive and interactive features to a broad range of
users, but they often exhibit two limitations: the built-in features cannot possibly cover all use …

Traditionally, writing code is a non-graphical, abstract, and linear process. Not everyone is
comfortable with this way of thinking at all times. Can programming be transformed into a …

Writing toString functions to display custom data values is straightforward, but building
custom interfaces to manipulate such values is more difficult. Though tolerable in many …

Debugging GUI applications is challenging because of the difficult-to-debug state changes
caused by asynchronous event handling and user interactions. Live programming, a …

Live Coding is a creative coding practice, where the act of programming itself constitutes a
performance. The code written during a Live Coding performance often generates media, for …

A live programming environment allows programmers to edit programs while they are
running. This means that successive" edit steps" must not allow a programmer to bring the …

The intelligent programming assistant, directly integrated into the programmer's workflow,
has been a long time dream of programmers and researchers alike. Before the advent of …

We introduce a tool within the Code Bubbles development environment that allows for
continuous execution as the programmer edits. The tool, SEEDE, shows both the …