1.
long title is long
More Intuitive Programming
Through Better Code Completion
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020

2.
Intuition
• Acquiring knowledge without
conscious reasoning
• Influenced by crystalized
knowledge
• "Educated guessing"
• Low mental effort
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020

3.
Intuition in Programming
• Traditionally
• "Cheap" programmer time vs. expensive computer time
• Plenty of conscious reasoning required
• Recalling or acquiring knowledge
• Intuition only at competence level
• Now (especially in GameDev)
• Expensive programmer time vs. cheap computer time
• Fast iterations are possible and desired
• Trial and error programming is feasible
• Intuitive programming is becoming the norm
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020

4.
"Intelligent" Code Completion (ICC)
• Type some incomplete statement
• Press a key and the code editor will…
• do nothing
• show a list of suggestions
• autocomplete it
• Fill in the rest, assisted by ICC
• Compile, Run, Debug
• Repeat!
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020

5.
Imperative Programming
• The oldest still relevant programming style
• Subject is implied and always the same
• Verb is most important, but hardest to find
• Objects are trivial, their order is not
• ICC helps with object order, but not with verb
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020
fputs(file, "Hello Worldn");
Verb Object 1 Object 2
Computer!
Subject WTF?!

6.
Objective Oriented Programming
• The most common programming style
• ICC can infer Verb from primary object (Object 1)
• Primary object looks like Subject, but isn't
• ICC doesn't help with finding the primary object
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020
file.WriteLine("Hello World");
file << "Hello World" << endl;
VerbObject 1 Object 2
Computer!
Subject
Computer!
2nd verb & 3rd object

7.
Intuition Oriented Programming
• A future programming style
• An example syntax:
• Start by writing Object 1, Object 2
• Hit that ICC key
• ICC lists all possible Verbs for those objects
• Profit!
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020
WriteLine(file, "Hello World");
Verb Object 1 Object 2
Computer!
Subject

8.
Conclusions
• Accessibility in programming is important…
• … but also seriously lacking …
• … but will also benefits veterans
• IOP can happen in the code editor…
• … but gets better with language support
• There are many small improvement possible
• Let's get started!
Dietmar Hauser | roborodent e.U. | 2020

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