Seminar "Visual Languages" (summer 2004)

Lecturer: Berthold Hoffmann
Time: Thursday 10-12 MZH7220

The relevance of visual notation for the communication between humans and computers has grown steadily, ranging from graphical user interfaces to the object-oriented design of software by diagrams of UML.

In this seminar, scientific papers about the foundations, concepts, syntax, semantics, and implementation of visual languages shall be studied, and some visual languages and environments shall be evaluated as examples. The focus will be on visual programming languages.

Attendence: Students of Computer Science after their 2nd year. Knowledge about principles of programming languages and compilers is desirable.

Credits (Studienbegleitende Leistungsnachweise): Lecture (1h) and paper (about 8 pages) on a scientific paper, and continuous participation in the seminar.

Literature

Margaret M. Burnett, Adele Goldberg, Ted G. Lewis (1995).

Visual Object-oriented Programming. Manning, Greenwich, CT.

Kim Marriott, Bernd Meyer, eds. (1998).

Visual Language Theory. (a inf 630 e/371) Springer New York.

Stefan Schiffer (1998).

Visuelle Programmierung (in German). Addison-Wesley-Longman: Bonn.
(a inf 311 vis/235)

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