Topics in Programming Languages: User Interfaces for Programming Languages

CMSC 32001 (Spring 2020) | Ravi Chugh | sometime/somewhere

Seminar Format

Our reading list will closely kind of follow (a subset of topics from) Cyrus Omar's UI for PL course.

• Required: Read the papers before class.
• Optional: Send paper summaries before class.
• Required for elective credit: Course project, arranged with instructor.

Meeting 1: Inventing on Principle (W Apr 8, 8:30pm)

• Inventing on Principle (2012: Bret Victor)

Extra

• Doing with Images Makes Symbols (1987: Alan Kay) [ part 1 | part 2 ]

Meeting 2: Live Programming Environments (W Apr 15, 8:30pm)

• A Perspective on the Evolution of Live Programming (LIVE 2013: Tanimoto)
• The Road to Live Programming: Insights from the Practice (ICSE 2018: Kubelka, Robbes, Bergel)
• Projection Boxes: On-the-fly Reconfigurable Visualization for Live Programming (CHI 2020: Lerner)

Meeting 3: Live Programming / Program Visualization (W Apr 22 Apr 29 May 6, 8:30pm)

• A Live Programming Experience (FPW 2015: McDirmid) [ video ]
• Omnicode: A Novice-Oriented Live Programming Environment with Always-On Run-Time Value Visualizations (UIST 2017: Kang, Guo)
• Augmenting Code with In Situ Visualizations to Aid Program Understanding (CHI 2018: Hoffswell, Satyanarayan, Heer)

Meeting 4: Live Programming / Direct Manipulation (W May 13, 8:30pm)

• Babylonian-style Programming (<Programming> 2019: Rauch, Rein, Ramson, Lincke, Hirschfeld)
• Tangible Functional Programming (ICFP 2007: Elliott) [ video ]

Meeting 5: Live Programming / Program Visualization (W May 20, 8:30pm)

• Example Centric Programming (Onward! 2004: Edwards)
• Subtext: Uncovering the Simplicity of Programming (Onward! 2005: Edwards)
• PANE: Programming with Visible Data (video) (LIVE 2018: Horowitz) [ webpage ]
• Flowsheets v2 (video) (2017: Chiacchieri)

Meeting 6 (W May 27, 8:30pm)

• Interactive Visual Functional Programming (ICFP 2002: Hanna)
• Managing Duplicated Code with Linked Editing (VL/HCC 2004: Tommim, Begel, Graham)

Meeting 7 (W Jun 10, 8:30pm): #BlackLivesMatter, #ShutdownSTEM, #ShutdownPL (W Jun 10, 8:30pm)

• Critical Race Theory for HCI (CHI 2020: Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, Smith, To, Toyama)
• When Twice as Good Isn't Enough: The Case for Cultural Competence in Computing (SIGCSE 2020: Washington)

Extra

• "I am just terrified of my future" — Epistemic Violence in Disability Related Technology Research (alt.chi 2020: Anonymous, Good, Spiel, Hornecker, Keyes, Bennet, Williams)
• Data Feminism — Ch. 7: The Power Chapter (2018/9: D'Ignazio, Klein)
• Doing More With Sample Datasets (2018: Correll)
• Does Technology Have Race? (alt.chi 2016: Hankerson, Marshall, Booker, El Mimouni, Walker, Rode)

Meeting 8: Visual Programming / Spreadsheets (W Jun 3 W Jun 10 M Jun 15, 8:30pm)

• Visual Programming (1999: Burnett)
• Visual Programming Languages and the Empirical Evidence For and Against (Visual Languages and Computing 1997: Whitley)
• PURE DATA: Making it Work 01, a Simple Sequencer (video) (2009: Hernandez)
• Creating Interactive Web Data Applications Using Spreadsheets (video) (UIST 2014: Chang, Myers) [ Gneiss page ]
• Using and Exploring Hierarchical Data in Spreadsheets (CHI 2016: Chang, Myers)
• Cuscus: An End User Programming Tool for Visualization (IS-EUD 2019: Marasoiu, Nauck, Blackwell)
• Project Demo

Extra

• Max/MSP & Pure Data: Miller Puckette (podcast) (Future of Coding 2020: Reese)
• Luna: A WYSIWG language for data processing
• Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications (Convivial Computing 2020: Litt, Jackson)

Miscellaneous Reading List

Live Programming / Programming by Demonstration / Direct Manipulation

• Programming through Pictorial Transformations (ICCL 1988: Hsia, Ambler)
• Construction and Dynamic Manipulation of Icons (WVL 1988: Hsia, Ambler)
• Marquise: Creating Complete User Interfaces by Demonstration (INTERCHI 1993: Myers, McDaniel, Kosbie)
• Directness and Liveness in the Morphic UI Construction Environment (UIST 1995: Maloney, Smith)
• Fudgets: Purely Functional Processes with Applications to GUIs (1998: Carlsson, Hallgren) [ webpage ]
• Past, Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools (TOCHI 2000: Myers, Hudson, Pausch)
• Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Dev. Env. (CHI 2010: Brandt, Dontcheva, Weskamp, Klemmer)
• The Moldable Inspector (Onward! 2015: Chis, Nierstrasz, Syrel, Girba)
• Penrose: From Mathematical Notation to Beautiful Diagrams (SIGGRAPH 2020: Ye, Ni, Krieger, Ma'ayan, Wise, Aldrich, Sunshine, Crane)

Program Synthesis

• Wrex: A Unified PBE Interaction for Synthesizing Readable Code for Data Scientists (CHI 2020: Drosos, Barik, Guo, DeLine, Gulwani)
• Perfect is the Enemy of the Good: Best-Effort Program Synthesis (ECOOP 2020: Peleg, Polikarpova)

Misc

• SketchPad (1963: Ivan Sutherland) [ original | reformatted ]
• ThingLab
• Data Authoring Environments (2018: Burgess)
• Teaching the Art of Functional Programming Using Automated Grading (Experience Report) (ICFP 2019: Hameer, Pientka)

Vis

• Data is Personal: Attitudes and Perceptions of Data Visualization in Rural Pennsylvania (CHI 2019: Peck, Ayuso, El-Etr)
• Surfacing Visualization Mirages (CHI 2020: McNutt, Kindlmann, Correll)