Writing Code to Prototype, Ideate, and Discover

People often write code to prototype, ideate, and discover. To do this, they work opportunistically, emphasizing speed and ease of development over code robustness and maintainability. Quickly hacking a program together can provide both practical and learning benefits for novices and experts: profes...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 18 - 24
Main Authors Brandt, J., Guo, P.J., Lewenstein, J., Klemmer, S.R., Dontcheva, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.09.2009
IEEE Computer Society
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Art galleries & museums
Business
Chat rooms
Compressors
Computer programs
Debugging
Designers
Hardware
HTML
Interleaved codes
Java
Learning
Libraries
Maintainability
Museum exhibits
opportunistic programming
Programmers
Programming profession
Prototypes
prototyping
Rapid prototyping
Robustness
Software
Software engineering
Software prototyping
Spreadsheets
Studies
Writing
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Summary:People often write code to prototype, ideate, and discover. To do this, they work opportunistically, emphasizing speed and ease of development over code robustness and maintainability. Quickly hacking a program together can provide both practical and learning benefits for novices and experts: professional programmers and designers prototype to explore and communicate ideas, scientists program laboratory instruments, and entrepreneurs assemble complex spreadsheets to better understand their business. Their diverse activities share an emphasis on speed and ease of development over robustness and maintainability.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2009.147