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Gray, Wayne D., John, Bonnie E., Nardi, Bonnie A., Petre, Marion, Spohrer, James C. and Turner, Althea A. (1993): End-User Programming. In: Cook, Curtis, Scholtz, Jean and Spohrer, James C. (eds.) Empirical Studies of Programmers - Fifth Workshop December 3-15, 1993, 1993, Palo Alto, California. pp. 1-2.

End-user programming involves the end user building new tools, not simply using an application. Hence, word processing is not an example of end-user programming while building style sheets for a word processor would be. Using communication software is not, writing a script for the communication software is. Using someone else's spreadsheet is not, building your own spreadsheet is. Using someone else's HyperCard stack is not, building your own is. Running someone else's cognitive model is not, building a cognitive model that fits your theory is. This definition includes both specialized software for experts (for example, Edmonds, O'Brien, & Bayley, 1993), semi-domain specialized software such as spreadsheets, as well as intendedly general purpose (but specialized anyway) software such as HyperCard. The two defining characteristics are: building software tools (what the end-user programming language, EPL, is used for) and characteristics of the user (whose main interest is in building a tool for which they, among possible others, will be a user). Hence, LISP could be considered an EPL for C programmers who use EMACS.

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16 Feb 2010: Enabled abstracts to be shown on Marion Petre's author page.
28 Apr 2003: Added the author to the bibliography

Publication statistics

Publication period:1993-1993
Publication count:1
Number of co-authors:5



Productive colleagues

Marion Petre's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Bonnie A. Nardi:52
Bonnie E. John:51
Wayne D. Gray:33


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Althea A. Turner:1
James C. Spohrer:1
Bonnie A. Nardi:1

 

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Computer programs emerge as the outcome of complex human processes of cognition, communication and negotiation, which serve to establish the meaningful embedding of the computer system in its intended use context.

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