Abstract
Mobile devices have been making their way into our everyday life for quite some time, and especially the market for tablets is increasing. They are used at home for entertainment purposes as well as in professional environments, helping to ensure productivity. A large and constantly growing amount of apps for basically every task is available. With one exemption: programmers are still bound to the classic PC setup and hardly use a tablet for software development. The reason for this is simple: their tool chain does not fit the small screens. The space constraints on tablets demand a paradigm shift. We propose a prototype sketch of a development environment based on a concatenative programming language. Concatenative programming has a strong focus on composing words out of other words, supporting a minimalistic and concise approach to programming. This approach perfectly fits into the mobile world and allows developers to write programs for tablets on tablets.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bibby, A.: The rapid development of tablet computing. White Paper 3.0, TCO Development (October 2011)
Brodie, L.: Thinking Forth. Punchy Publishing (2004)
Chen, X., Wang, D., Wang, H.: Design and implementation of a graphical programming tool for children. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering, CSAE (2011)
Consulting, P.: The 30-inch apple cinema hd display productivity benchmark. Tech. rep., Pfeiffer Consulting (2005)
Edel, M.: The tinkertoy graphical programming environment. IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. 14, 1110–1115 (1988)
Ertl, M.A.: Is Forth code compact? A case study. In: EuroForth 1999 Conference Proceedings, St. Petersburg, Russia (1999)
Herzberg, D., Hesenius, M., Reichert, T.: Hands on programming. In: Proceedings of eLBa 2012 (2012) (to be published)
Herzberg, D., Reichert, T.: Concatenative programming: An overlooked paradigm in functional programming. In: Proceedings of ICSOFT 2009 (2009)
Jung, J.: The research of mobile user interface design components from the standpoint of universal design for learning. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, pp. 254–256. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC (2005)
McDirmid, S.: Coding at the speed of touch. In: Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, ONWARD 2011, pp. 61–76. ACM, New York (2011)
Pestov, S., Ehrenberg, D., Groff, J.: Factor: a dynamic stack-based programming language. In: DLS 2010 Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Dynamic Languages (2010)
Tillmann, N., Moskal, M., de Halleux, J., Fahndrich, M.: Touchdevelop: programming cloud-connected mobile devices via touchscreen. In: Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software. ACM, New York (2011)
Xu, S., Bradburn, K.: Usability Issues in Introducing Capacitive Interaction into Mobile Navigation. In: Salvendy, G., Smith, M.J. (eds.) HCII 2011, Part II. LNCS, vol. 6772, pp. 430–439. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Hesenius, M., Orozco Medina, C.D., Herzberg, D. (2012). Touching Factor: Software Development on Tablets. In: Gschwind, T., De Paoli, F., Gruhn, V., Book, M. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7306. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30564-1_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30564-1_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-30563-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-30564-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)