Suppose You Had Blocks within a Notebook

Mauricio Verano Merino; Juan Pablo Sáenz; Ana María Díaz Castillo

doi:10.1145/3563836.3568728

Suppose You Had Blocks within a Notebook

Mauricio Verano Merino
, Juan Pablo Sáenz
, Ana María Díaz Castillo

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Computational notebooks have been gaining prominence as a development environment suitable for non-experienced developers. However, it requires proficiency in writing syn- tactically and semantically correct code. In this article, we propose integrating a block-based approach into compu- tational notebooks to prevent syntactical errors and ease the non-expert developers’ adoption. Furthermore, we rely on two tools previously implemented (Bacatá and Kogi) to (i) create a computational notebook for Domain-Specific Languages and (ii) generate a block-based representation upon the language definition. Consequently, our approach does not exclusively focus on integrating a block-based en- vironment into computational notebooks but on enabling the creation and integration of domain-specific block-based environments into notebooks. Future work concerns the evaluation of our proposal through a user study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PAINT 2022
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments
Editors	Tom Beckmann, Robert Hirschfeld, Juan Pablo Saenz, Mauricio Verano Merino
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	57-62
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9910-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3563836.3568728
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments, PAINT 2022 - Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 5 Dec 2022 → 5 Dec 2022

Conference

Conference	1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments, PAINT 2022
Abbreviated title	PAINT 2022
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Auckland
Period	5/12/22 → 5/12/22

Keywords

Block-based languages
Computational notebook
DSLs
Documentation
Jupyter
Scratch

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Verano Merino, M., Sáenz, J. P., & Castillo, A. M. D. (2022). Suppose You Had Blocks within a Notebook. In T. Beckmann, R. Hirschfeld, J. P. Saenz, & M. V. Merino (Eds.), PAINT 2022: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments (pp. 57-62). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563836.3568728

Verano Merino, Mauricio ; Sáenz, Juan Pablo ; Castillo, Ana María Díaz. / Suppose You Had Blocks within a Notebook. PAINT 2022: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments. editor / Tom Beckmann ; Robert Hirschfeld ; Juan Pablo Saenz ; Mauricio Verano Merino. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2022. pp. 57-62

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Verano Merino, M, Sáenz, JP & Castillo, AMD 2022, Suppose You Had Blocks within a Notebook. in T Beckmann, R Hirschfeld, JP Saenz & MV Merino (eds), PAINT 2022: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., pp. 57-62, 1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments, PAINT 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, 5/12/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563836.3568728

Suppose You Had Blocks within a Notebook. / Verano Merino, Mauricio; Sáenz, Juan Pablo; Castillo, Ana María Díaz.
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Verano Merino M, Sáenz JP, Castillo AMD. Suppose You Had Blocks within a Notebook. In Beckmann T, Hirschfeld R, Saenz JP, Merino MV, editors, PAINT 2022: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2022. p. 57-62 doi: 10.1145/3563836.3568728

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