October 20, 2014

PROMOTO 2014—2nd Workshop on Programming for Mobile and Touch

Location: Portland, OR, United States

9:00 Opening – Chairs
9:15 Keynote

Programming Gadgets with Gadgets

Peli de Halleux, Microsoft Research

Chair: Arno Puder, SFSU

10:30 Break
11:00 Research Talks (30 mins each)
Live programming of mobile apps in App Inventor, Jeffrey Schiller, Franklyn Turbak, Hal Abelson, Jose Dominguez, Andrew McKinney, Johanna Okerlund and Mark Friedman

Software Engineering Principles in the Midas Gesture Specification Language, Thierry Renaux, Lode Hoste, Christophe Scholliers and Wolfgang De Meuter.

Chair: Judith Bishop

12:00 Lunch
13:30 Mobile App Development Group Exercise
14:20
Tool Demos
(20 mins each)
Supporting situated STEM learning – TouchDevelop Integration of the UCL Engduino over Bluetooth, Simon Baker, Stoyan Dekov, Fadi Fakih, Jan Medvesek, Venus Shum and Dean Mohamedally

A Preview of Pencil Code, David Bau and Anthony Bau.

Chair: Nikolai Tillmann

15:00 Break
15:30
Short Papers
(20 mins each)
Mobile vs. Desktop Programming Projects: The Effect on Students, Mohammad Reza Azadmanesh, Amanj Sherwany, Davide Eynard, Matej Vitasek and Matthias Hauswirth

Data-Driven Inference of API Mappings, Amruta Gokhale, Daeyoung Kim and Vinod Ganapathy

Chair: Mark FRiedman

16:10 Panel on Mobile Computing and Education

Chair: Judith Bishop

Panellists: Matthias Hauswirth, Dean Mohamedally, Alberto Sillitti, Sam Stokes

17:00 Closing Words: Chairs
17:15 End