Designing and explaining programs with a literate pseudocode
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
ACM Press
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Information Science / Centre for Security Research
RAS ID
4906
Abstract
Designing and explaining programs are often difficult tasks, especially when novices are involved. It also concerns more experienced programmers when complex algorithms need to be carefully explained and documented as part of software development.Good practice suggests that code and documentation be tightly coupled; but there are only a few support tools specifically targeted at novices that require this as an integral part of the programming process. We propose a new tool design with this objective in mind: P-Coder gives a flexible descriptive view of the program via pseudocode notation within a graphical tree-structured model, from which the complete algorithm can be specified to retain the informal description integrated with the final code. Thus the code meets some of the key requirements for realizing a literate program.
DOI
10.1145/1217862.1217863
Comments
Roy, G. G. (2006). Designing and explaining programs with a literate pseudocode. Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), 6(1), 1. Available here