Active templates: Manipulating pointers with pictures

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dc.contributor.authorLyons, Paul J.
dc.contributor.authorApperley, Mark
dc.contributor.authorBishop, A.G.
dc.contributor.authorMoretti, G.S
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-11T03:55:55Z
dc.date.available2010-11-11T03:55:55Z
dc.date.issued1994
dc.description.abstractActive templates are a semi-automatic visual mechanism for generating algorithms for manipulating pointer-based data structures. The programmer creates a picture showing the affected part of a data structure before and after a general-case manipulation. Code for the operation is compiled directly from the picture, which also provides the development environment with enough information to generate, automatically, a series of templates for other similar pictures, each describing a different configuration which the data structure may possess. The programmer completes the algorithm by creating matching after-pictures for each of these cases. At every stage, most of the picture-generation is automatic. Much of the tedious detail of conventional pointer-based data-structure manipulation, such as maintenance of current pointers, is unnecessary in a system based on active templates.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationLyons, P.J., Apperley, M.D., Bishop, A.G. & Moretti, G.S. (1994). Active Templates Manipulating pointers with pictures. In Proceedings of the Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, OZCHI ’94.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/4791
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ergonomics.org.au/chisig.aspxen_NZ
dc.rightsThis article has been published in Proceedings of the Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, OZCHI ’94. Used with permission.en_NZ
dc.subjectcomputer scienceen_NZ
dc.subjectactive templatesen_NZ
dc.subjectvisual programming languageen_NZ
dc.subjectHyperpascalen_NZ
dc.subjectdata structuresen_NZ
dc.titleActive templates: Manipulating pointers with picturesen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contributionen_NZ
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