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1988

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Heerjee, Kaizad B., Swanston, Michael T., Miller, Colin J. and Samson, William B. (1988): The Design and Evaluation of an Animated Programming Environment. In: Jones, Dylan M. and Winder, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers IV August 5-9, 1988, University of Manchester, UK. pp. 97-109.

“APE, an Animated Programming Environment, is an interactive, graphical, program design and development system, that embodies structured programming and top-down design. The system supports the development of programs for a variety of block structured languages whilst working conceptually at the level of Jackson diagrams. Evaluation of APE has been carried out during the design and implementation stages of the development life-cycle. The evaluation was based on responses to a questionnaire and a comparison with conventional means of generating code. The questionnaire evaluation elicited users' general impressions about the system and its interface, and their detailed views on more specific aspects of the system. The comparative evaluation showed no difference in the mean quality of the solution to a programming problem, but a significantly reduced variance in quality compared to conventional methods.”

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