nov 2008
Our study of object oriented design and API usability will be presented at FSE 2008.
sept 2008
We presented four papers at VL/HCC this year! Two on Euclase and two on API usability.
may 2008
The Java Whyline is available for download!
april 2008
Our Java Whyline paper at ICSE '08 won a Distinguished Paper Award!
The Natural Programming Project is working on making programming languages and environments easier to learn, more effective, and less error prone. We are taking a human-centered approach, first studying how people perform their tasks and then designing languages and environments around people's natural tendencies. We focus on all kinds of programming, including professional programmers, novice programmers who are trying to learn to be experts, and end users, who program to support other jobs or hobbies, such as multimedia authoring, simulations, teaching, prototyping, and other activities supported by computing.
We're affiliated with the EUSES consortium, which is a group of universities working on end-user software engineering.
