On 29/04/16 3:44 AM, Brad Myers wrote:
We have found that trying to have any particular visualization that
serves lots of needs is rarely successful, and a better strategy is to
try to understand and then more directly answer the specific questions
that developers have. We discuss this obse
On 28/04/16 7:15 PM, Dan Sumption wrote:
This is a subject that interests me greatly, and I'm keen to hear
people's views on it.
My perspective is that of a working software developer (albeit with a
background in psychology), not an academic. I have no experience of
ML, and have worked only
On 29/04/16 11:12 AM, Mark Levison wrote:
I'm still a practitioner, to the extent a consultant can be.
Visualations need to be derived from the code and not the annotations
since I've never met a programmer who voluntary updated their JavaDoc
or other annotation.
Why are we even talking
I'm still a practitioner, to the extent a consultant can be.
Visualations need to be derived from the code and not the annotations since
I've never met a programmer who voluntary updated their JavaDoc or other
annotation.
I've seen literate code on rare occasions, mostly from teams doing BDD/TDD.
> Richard,
>
>> I've been thinking for some time of writing a paper with the
>> title "Why can't I see the structure?" based on the idea that
>> modules in every programming language I know look like blobs.
>
> The most obvious answer is lack of practice:
> http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.co
We have found that trying to have any particular visualization that serves lots
of needs is rarely successful, and a better strategy is to try to understand
and then more directly answer the specific questions that developers have. We
discuss this observation and various HCI methods we apply to
Right on. Code often becomes so complicated that we really need multiple
ways to tackle, visualize, sort, query, etc. it. The fact that we have such
a paucity of tools and toolkits/frameworks for the tooling is I feel a long
standing indictment of the whole industry. I guess most people don't grok
Richard,
I've been thinking for some time of writing a paper with the
title "Why can't I see the structure?" based on the idea that
modules in every programming language I know look like blobs.
The most obvious answer is lack of practice:
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2016/03/24/h
This is a subject that interests me greatly, and I'm keen to hear people's
views on it.
My perspective is that of a working software developer (albeit with a
background in psychology), not an academic. I have no experience of ML, and
have worked only a little with functional languages.
I was a li
