Snippets: Support for Drag-and-Drop Programming in the Redwood Environment
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Westphal,Brian
Jr.,Frederick C. Harris
Dascalu,Sergiu
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Journal of Universal Computer Science
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This paper presents an overview of the Redwood programming environment and details one of its key features, snippets. Through snippets, developers can both make use of a variety of predefined programming constructs and build their own reusable program components. Language-independent, snippets are descriptions of program parts that can be as simple as an assignment statement or as complex as a sophisticated optimization algorithm. In Redwood, snippets also provide support for a distinguishing facility of visual environments: direct manipulation via drag-and-drop. An example of working with snippets, including snippet definition, visualization, customization, and mapping to code is also presented in the paper.
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snippets , software development , programming environment , visual programming , design tool , drag-and-drop , Redwood