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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: visual programming environment for data-structured programming
  name:
    name part: Teel, Scott Carlton.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Carlisle, W. Homer
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Childs, S. Bart
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Sena, James A.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Sheppard, Sallie V.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1987
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 165 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: This research involved the design and development of the Visual Programming Environment for a Limited Abstract Data Type Set (VPE-LADTS), a graphical software development tool for use in the creation of data-structured programs. The primary motivation for the research was twofold: 1) to investigate the potential application of data-structured programming in the educational and professional arenas, and 2) to provide an environment immediately usable to enhance introductory education in the use of data-structured programming and abstract data types. Data-structured programming (DSP), which uses a limited set of abstract data types in place of arrays and pointers, has recently been advanced in the literature as a programming methodology which results in programs that are shorter, simpler, and easier to understand than array-based programs. Visual Programming addresses methods of increasing a program's comprehensibility through the display and modification of software using visual and graphical means. Using a new category of visual programming language (the icon-based visual programming language), the VPE-LADTS features a combined text and graphic presentation of a data-structured program, and permits the use of dynamic data-structure and control-flow visualization, along with software engineering methods such as top-down design with step-wise refinement, procedural abstraction, and incremental development of algorithms. The results of a formative evaluation of both data-structured programming and the VPE-LADTS are presented. With regard to DSP, the results suggest that data-structured programming is a promising methodology and that further research is indicated to identify both the application areas DSP is suited for and the particular abstract data types needed for those areas. Experiences with the VPE-LADTS indicate that the environment can be used to effectively enhance introductory computer science education through a tight integration of visual programming and dat…
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Computer Science Texas A & M University 1987
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-147).
  subject:
    topic: Electronic data processing
    topic: Computer-assisted instruction
  subject:
    topic: Structured programming
  subject:
    topic: Visual programming (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Major computer science
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-747608
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 881024
    record change date: 20220104090336.0
    record identifier: in00000727406
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng