Nytro Posted November 12, 2011 Report Posted November 12, 2011 The Grace Programming Language ProjectSPLASH 2011: Andrew Black and James Noble - The Grace Programming Language ProjectVideo:http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/SPLASH-2011-Andrew-Black-and-James-Noble-The-Grace-Programming-Language-ProjectThe Grace Programming Language project is a research effort that aims to make learning how to program easier by baking "educational abstractions" into the language itself - it's an object oriented programming language designed for teaching undergraduate students. This means the language is designed from the ground up as a learning tool for novice adult programmers.The Grace PL project is led by Kim Bruce, Andrew Black, and James Noble. (Unfortunately, Kim was unable to take part in this conversation. Next time, Kim!) Here, we learn about the need for a programming language that targets novices and what a novice programming language looks like. What does a programming language for novices mean, exactly? How can it be simple enough (conceptually easy to use, to read, to understand) while remaining useful as a programming tool? Can't you learn how to program effectively using objects in an industrial strength general purpose programming language like C# or Java? What does Grace afford that the more feature-rich languages don't? Tune in. This is a fascinating research topic and one that should yield some very interesting practical results. Great work!Website:http://gracelang.org/Specificatii:http://gracelang.org/documents/grace-spec0132.pdf Quote
