Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) 2011

[craig....@gmail.com]

Hi all,

My workshop I helped co-organise on the Evaluation and Usability of
Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) just finished and I thought
I would share it with you. The papers from all the authors and some of
their slides are freely available as well as the keynote speaker.
There may be something there for you to help with your web usability
work.

Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU)
2011 @ SPLASH 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA.
http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/Program
http://splashcon.org/2011/

All the best.

Kind regards,
Craig

Craig Anslow
PhD Thesis Student
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
+64 4 463 9998
http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig

[craig....@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Following on from our workshop in late October last year there was an
interesting paper which sparked quite a bit of debate and went viral.
The authors of the paper have informed me that they have had over 22K
downloads. The main point of the paper is the methodology (i.e. the
way the researchers conducted the user experiment) which may be of use
to some in this community. Despite the fact that the results showed
that Perl performed less well than the other languages in the
experiment which was the some what interesting result.

Andreas Stefik, Susanna Siebert, Melissa Stefik, and Kim Slattery: An
Empirical Comparison of the Accuracy Rates of Novices using the
Quorum, Perl, and Randomo Programming Languages. PLATEAU 2011.

http://www.cs.siue.edu/~astefik/papers/StefikPlateau2011.pdf (authors
link to the paper)
http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/twiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/Program/plateau2011-stefik.pdf
(local NZ copy)
http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/twiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/Program/plateau2011-stefik-slides.pdf
(slides from the presentation)

Here are some interesting links that discuss the paper:

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/27/213231/is-perl-better-than-a-randomly-generated-programming-language?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=197
http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=211
http://tavisharmstrong.com/2011/12/04/thoughts-on-the-quorum-paper/
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4391
http://www.i-programmer.info/programming/perl/3331-perl-not-suitable-for-beginners.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3152147
http://www.allhatter.com/archive/index.php/t-63205.html

Kind regards,
Craig

Craig Anslow
PhD Thesis Student
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
+64 4 463 9998
http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig

On Oct 28 2011, 1:10 pm, "craig.ans...@gmail.com"

<craig.ans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My workshop I helped co-organise on the Evaluation and Usability of
> Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) just finished and I thought
> I would share it with you. The papers from all the authors and some of
> their slides are freely available as well as the keynote speaker.
> There may be something there for you to help with your web usability
> work.
>
> Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU)

> 2011 @ SPLASH 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA.http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/Programhttp://splashcon.org/2011/