Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:33 - 14:46 at Grand Station 5 - Programming Languages Papers Chair(s): Joshua Sunshine

An incorrect understanding of operators and precedence can create bugs in programming. The purpose of this study is to explore programmers understanding, interpretation and perception of operators and precedence issues. Two hypotheses highlighted in this paper which related to the use of parentheses. Parentheses has the highest precedence in programming languages. Thus, the important of parentheses in expressions will be tested. The findings may lead to an improvement or a new knowledge about the rules for operators and precedence in programming languages. The findings will also provide both theoretical analysis and guidelines for developers and language designers.

Operators and precedence in programming languages (plateau2015-razali.pdf)130KiB

Mon 26 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Programming Languages PapersPLATEAU at Grand Station 5
Chair(s): Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University
13:30
20m
Talk
A user study for comparing the programming efficiency of modifying executable multimodal interaction descriptions. A domain-specific language versus equivalent event-callback code
PLATEAU
Fredy Cuenca Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Jan Van den Bergh Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Kris Luyten Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Karin Coninx Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds
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13:50
20m
Talk
A Study on the Most Popular Questions About Concurrent Programming
PLATEAU
Gustavo Pinto UFPE, Weslley Torres Federal University of Pernambuco, Fernando Castor UFPE
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14:10
10m
Talk
Comparing Transitive to Intransitive Object Immutability
PLATEAU
Michael Coblenz Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University, Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University, Sam Weber Software Engineering Institute, Forrest Shull Software Engineering Institute
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14:20
13m
Talk
Is Functional Programming Better for Modularity?
PLATEAU
Ismael Figueroa Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, Romain Robbes University of Chile
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14:33
13m
Talk
Operators and precedence in programming languages
PLATEAU
Najwani Razali Victoria University of Wellington, James Noble Victoria University of Wellington, Stuart Marshall Victoria University of Wellington
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14:46
13m
Talk
Some Usability Hypotheses for Verification
PLATEAU
David J. Pearce Victoria University of Wellington
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