Thu, 2 Jan

Registration and Tea

Introduction and Welcome. Nick Rousseau (LUT)

Two of Our American Cousins

Chair: Nick Rousseau

1. Keynote: Addressing the psychology of programming in programming language design
   Clayton Lewis
   Univ. of Boulder, Colorado, USA

2. ACE - An Application Construction Environment
   Bonnie Nardi
   Hewlett-Packard, CA, USA

Dinner

Snooker and Poster Session

3. Possible extensons to the Byrd Box tracer airned at experts
   Kristina Hook, Annika Waem
   Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
   Helen Pain
   Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh

4. Programming in the real worm (Computer Science students’ perceptions of the values and difficultiesof learning formal methods)
   Pat Fung
   Open University

5. Some thoughts on designing an intelligent system for discovery programming
   Haider Ali Ramadhan
   University of Sussex

Fri, 3 Jan

Tools for the Programmer

Chair: David Gilmore

6. Title to be Announced
   Caroline Humphreys
   Computer Studies Dept, LUT

7. Visual programming & visualisation of program execution in Prolog
   Simon Holland
   University of Aberdeen

8. Text vs grahics in Prolog tracers
   Ben du Boulay
   University of Sussex

Coffee

Open Discussion (including relevant posters)

Lunch

Teaching and Learning Programming

Chair: Tom Omerod

9. An analysis of novice programmers learning a second language
   Jeanne Scholtz
   Computer Science Dept, Portland State Univ, USA

10. GPT’s preparation of students for programming in the real world
    Ray Dawson
    Computer Studies Dept, LUT

11. Teaching formal software engineering at Loughborough
    Roger Stone & John Cooke
    Computer Studies Dept, LUT

Tea

12. Learning from worked examples (presentation followed by discussion)
    Judith Segal
    Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences, University of Surrey

Break

Open Discussion (including relevant posters)

Dinner and Bowls at Loughborough’s renowned Hollywood Bowls

Sat, 4 Jan

Four papers in search of a category

Chair: Marian Petre

13. Restricting manipulations within a device space: Effects upon strategy, errors and display-based problem solving
    Simon Davies
    University of Nottingham

14. How to support the work of designers through the presentation of appropriate information
    David Budgen
    Keele University

15. The interpretation of states: a new foundation for computation?
    Meurig Beynon & Steve Russ
    Dept. of Computer Science, University of Warwick

Coffee

16. An information management model of program debugger design and its application to parallel logic languages
    Mike Brayshaw
    Open University

Lunch

General Discussion & PPIG Meeting