Welcome to the 2nd Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop

Note: If you intend to participate in the PX/17 workshop, please note that the workshop will follow the Writers’ Workshop format. For that, please download and read all submissions in advance.

Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions—they need exploratory programming.

The Programming Experience (PX) Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it’s exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (“liveness”); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience?

Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming.

Flyer

http://programming-experience.org/px17/media/PX17CfP.pdf

http://programming-experience.org/px17/

Upcoming

PX/17.2 at SPLASH 2017

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09:00 - 10:30
Session IPX at D2.14
Chair(s): Richard P. Gabriel Dream Songs, Inc. & IBM Research, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
09:00
30m
Day opening
Arrival and Workshop Introduction
PX

09:30
60m
Talk
Live Data Structure Programming
PX
Akio Oka Department of Information Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tomoki Imai Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tomoyuki Aotani Tokyo Institute of Technology
11:00 - 12:00
Session IIPX at D2.14
Chair(s): Richard P. Gabriel Dream Songs, Inc. & IBM Research, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
11:00
60m
Talk
Exploratory Development of Data-intensive Applications
PX
Patrick Rein Hasso Plattner Institute, Marcel Taeumel Hasso Plattner Institute, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, Michael Perscheid Hasso Plattner Institute
13:30 - 15:00
Session IIIPX at D2.14
Chair(s): Richard P. Gabriel Dream Songs, Inc. & IBM Research, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
13:30
45m
Demonstration
Runtime Metric Meets Developer: Augmenting Source Code with Runtime Information to Make Programs Live
PX
Jürgen Cito University of Zurich
14:15
45m
Talk
Squeak Makes a Good Python Debugger
PX
Fabio Niephaus Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Tim Felgentreff Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Tobias Pape HPI, Germany, Robert Hirschfeld HPI
15:30 - 17:00
Session IVPX at D2.14
Chair(s): Richard P. Gabriel Dream Songs, Inc. & IBM Research, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
15:30
60m
Talk
User-Generated Variables: Streamlined Interaction Design for Feature Requests and Implementations
PX
Jun Kato National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, Masataka Goto National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
16:30
30m
Day closing
Open discussion and feedback
PX

Call for Contributions

Welcome to the 2nd Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop

Note: If you intend to participate in the PX/17 workshop, please note that the workshop will follow the Writers’ Workshop format. For that, please download and read all submissions in advance.

Abstract

Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions—they need exploratory programming.

The Programming Experience (PX) Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it’s exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (“liveness”); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience?

Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming.

Submissions

Submissions are solicited for Programming Experience 2017 (PX/17). The thrust of the workshop is to explore the human experience of programming—what it feels like to program, or more accurately, what it should feel like. The technical topics include exploratory programming, live programming, authoring, representation of active content, visualization, navigation, modularity mechanisms, immediacy, literacy, fluency, learning, tool building, and language engineering.

Submissions by academics, professional programmers, and non-professional programmer are welcome. Submissions can be in any form and format, including but not limited to papers, presentations, demos, videos, panels, debates, essays, writers’ workshops, and art. Presentation slots will be between 30 minutes and one hour, depending on quality, form, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions directed toward publication should be so marked, and the program committee will engage in peer review for all such papers. Video publication will be arranged.

All artifacts are to be submitted via EasyChair. Papers and essays must be written in English, provided as PDF documents, and follow the new ACM Master Article Template with the sigconf option.

There is no page limit on submitted papers and essays. It is, however, the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers interested and motivated to read the paper. Reviewers are under no obligation to read all or even a substantial portion of a paper or essay if they do not find the initial part of it interesting.

Review

Papers and essays labeled as publications will undergo standard peer review; other submissions will be reviewed for relevance and quality; shepherding will be available.

Publication

Papers and essays accepted through peer review will be published as part of ACM’s Digital Library; video publication on Vimeo or other streaming site; other publication on the PX/17 workshop website.

Previous editions

PX/16 at ECOOP 2016, July 18, 2016, Rome, Italy

Flyer

http://programming-experience.org/px17/media/PX17CfP.pdf

http://programming-experience.org/px17/

Upcoming

PX/17.2 at SPLASH 2017

Welcome to the 2nd Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop

Note: If you intend to participate in the PX/17 workshop, please note that the workshop will follow the Writers’ Workshop format. For that, please download and read all submissions in advance.

Paper presentations, presentations without papers, live demonstrations, performances, videos, panel discussions, debates, writers’ workshops, art galleries, dramatic readings.

We will be following a variant of the writers’ workshop format used in the software patterns community. This format works well when the goals include improving the form or presentation of the ideas as well as improving or understanding the ideas themselves.

In the writers’ workshop:

  • A moderator leads and directs the discussion.
  • We review the pieces and their ideas one at a time.
  • In general, the authors whose work is under review are silent.
  • When discussing form, the following kinds of questions will be asked:
    • What did you gather / understand from the piece?
    • What aspects of the piece worked well to present the ideas?
    • What aspects need improvement? (These comments must be in the form of suggestions, not criticisms.)
  • When discussing the ideas, the following kinds of questions will be asked:

    • What are the ideas?
    • Which ideas seem like good ones (and why)?
    • Which ideas need improvement or elimination? (Make positive suggestions when you can.)
  • At the end the authors ask questions of the group.

This is the basic format, but we adjust the flow according to the needs of the group and the way the discussion is going. It is formal to ensure all the important points are covered.

For more information about the workshop format, please have a look at Richard P. Gabriel’s book “Writers’ Workshops & the World of Making Things”.

Flyer

http://programming-experience.org/px17/media/PX17CfP.pdf

http://programming-experience.org/px17/

Upcoming

PX/17.2 at SPLASH 2017

Welcome to the 2nd Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop

Proceedings are available from ACM DL at http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3079368.

  • Patrick Rein, Marcel Taeumel, Robert Hirschfeld, and Michael Perscheid: Exploratory Development of Data-intensive Applications. [doi:10.1145/3079368.3079399]
  • Akio Oka, Hidehiko Masuhara, Tomoki Imai, and Tomoyuki Aotani: Live Data Structure Programming. [10.1145/3079368.3079400]
  • Jürgen Cito: Runtime Metric Meets Developer: Augmenting Source Code with Runtime Information to Make Programs Live. [demo]
  • Fabio Niephaus, Tim Felgentreff, Tobias Pape, and Robert Hirschfeld: Squeak Makes a Good Python Debugger. [doi:10.1145/3079368.3079402]
  • Jun Kato and Masataka Goto: User-Generated Variables: Streamlined Interaction Design for Feature Requests and Implementations. [10.1145/3079368.3079403]

PX/17.2?

http://2017.splashcon.org/track/px-17-2/

http://programming-experience.org/px17.2/