Instruction in computer programming includes both an introduction to program documentation and opportunities to practice program design and coding. A trade-off exists between these two programming elements (coding and...
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Instruction in computer programming includes both an introduction to program documentation and opportunities to practice program design and coding. A trade-off exists between these two programming elements (coding and documentation.) Assuming that student time is finite, time devoted to one must come at the expense of the other. A change in programming language from FORTRAN to C required that students devote additional time to coding because of the subtle language complexities of the C language. An approach that permits additional focus on coding while neither abandoning appropriate emphasis on documentation nor overloading the students, is presented. A related effort to improve programming instruction in MATLAB by carefully adapting documentation requirements is discussed.
In this paper, we present a framework for coupling an existing formatting system such as SMIL [7] and Madeus [13] with a formatting control system XEF [10]. This framework allows the coupling process to be performed a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1581137249
In this paper, we present a framework for coupling an existing formatting system such as SMIL [7] and Madeus [13] with a formatting control system XEF [10]. This framework allows the coupling process to be performed at two levels: 1) the language level, which is concerned with how to link the control features of XEF and the elements of an existing formatting system, and 2) the formatter level, which deals with the creation of a new formatter by formatter composition. The overall objective is to provide more powerful and flexible formatting services to cover new needs such adaptive and/or generated presentations.
We present an application of inductive program synthesis to learning XSL transformations (XSLT) with recursive template application. Since XML and XSLT are term languages, we use an approach to inductive synthesis of ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)088986375X
We present an application of inductive program synthesis to learning XSL transformations (XSLT) with recursive template application. Since XML and XSLT are term languages, we use an approach to inductive synthesis of functional programs. Synthesis is divided in two steps: First, a straight-forward, non-recursive program is generated which transforms a given set of input examples into the desired outputs;second, the straight-forward program is folded into a generalized recursive program based on recurrence detection. For our application, starting point is a single input/output example, that is, an XML document in its given form as input and in its desired form as output. A non-recursive XSLT is constructed via genetic programming. To apply our folding algorithm, the transformation is rewritten in standard term form. The resulting recursive XSLT is transformed back into XSL syntax.
Are non-fiction Web sites nonlinear like literary hypertexts, or linear like film and print? A study of magazine articles, television documentaries and Web sites by the National Geographic Society reveals that in spit...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781581134209
Are non-fiction Web sites nonlinear like literary hypertexts, or linear like film and print? A study of magazine articles, television documentaries and Web sites by the National Geographic Society reveals that in spite of linking, the Web sites make just as linear reading experiences as the older media, although less creative. The study gives nuance to conceptions of linearity and nonlinearity by studying what linearity really is, thus setting nonlinearity in relief. A number of techniques to tie gaps in the reading line together are identified in films and articles. It is argued that by using these techniques in linking, both better reading experiences and less linearity in Web sites could be achieved.
The current GUI is like a flight simulator whose camera points fixedly at right angle to the document, thus preventing users from looking ahead while navigating. We argue that perspective viewing of usual planar docum...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1595933530
The current GUI is like a flight simulator whose camera points fixedly at right angle to the document, thus preventing users from looking ahead while navigating. We argue that perspective viewing of usual planar documents can help navigation. We analyze the scale implosion problem that arises with tilted cameras and we report the data of a formal experiment on document navigation with perspective views. Copyright 2006 ACM.
The features and the usability issues of the JUNOS Internet Software Feature Guide series, which is designed by Juniper Networks, are discussed. The guide is designed to explore the complicated software features avail...
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ISBN:
(纸本)158113696X
The features and the usability issues of the JUNOS Internet Software Feature Guide series, which is designed by Juniper Networks, are discussed. The guide is designed to explore the complicated software features available in Juniper Networks routers and nodes. The system requirements section of the guide lists the equipment and software needed to implement a feature. As it is important for users to understand the context in which the feature will operate as expected, thus full specifications for minimum hardware and software are listed. The guide is published in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and printed formats.
In the text document visualization community, statistical analysis tools (e.g., principal component analysis and multidimensional scaling) and neurocomputation models (e.g., self-organizing feature maps) have been wid...
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Crowder, RichardSim, Yee-WieIntell.
Agents Multimedia Group Sch. of Electron. and Comp. Science University of Southampton Southampton United Kingdom
Organisations are increasingly information intensive;hence providing access to data that is trapped in various proprietary forms including catalogues, databases, human resource systems and internally generated documen...
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Organisations are increasingly information intensive;hence providing access to data that is trapped in various proprietary forms including catalogues, databases, human resource systems and internally generated documents is now becoming a significant and challenging task. The authors have undertaken research into approaches to capture relevant knowledge from legacy documents. This is achieved by converting the legacy documents to XML, (eXtensible Markup Language), documents where the out-put is semantically tagged. Once in an XML form, the data can be easily transformed. This paper describes the development of tools to automate the process of converting legacy documents to XML documents. The purpose of this work is improve the efficiency and reliability of Expertise Finder suitable for use within an engineering design environment. We will also show that by querying the resultant XML versions of legacy documents provides better results than a basic text search over the identical documents when applied used within an Expertise Finder.
Producing multimedia documentation requires a new view of a technical communicator's roles, skills, and responsibilities. This includes: it's software development;designing for print and online concurrently;pl...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0897915321
Producing multimedia documentation requires a new view of a technical communicator's roles, skills, and responsibilities. This includes: it's software development;designing for print and online concurrently;planning;visual methodology;and, the fact that multimedia is the means to the achieving total performance support. Although traditional computer-human interfaces provide a wide range of options for performance support, multimedia offers new opportunities and technologies for technical communicators for delivering performance support that users will find meaningful and attractive.
We propose the use of dynamic visual representations to augment traditional static text as documentation. In other words, we suggest using live demonstrations or moving pictures to show people how to do things, and no...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781581135435
We propose the use of dynamic visual representations to augment traditional static text as documentation. In other words, we suggest using live demonstrations or moving pictures to show people how to do things, and not just using written or spoken words to tell them what to do. We present and illustrate examples of five methods and technologies for creating such dynamic documentation, and summarize what is known about their effectiveness.
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