A Pattern Language of an Exploratory Programming Workspace

Marcel Taeumel (), Jens Lincke (), Patrick Rein () and Robert Hirschfeld ()
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Marcel Taeumel: Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
Jens Lincke: Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
Patrick Rein: Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
Robert Hirschfeld: Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

A chapter in Design Thinking Research, 2022, pp 111-145 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Software design and the underlying programming activities entail a great portion of exploration to better understand problem and solution spaces. There are programming tools and environments that support such exploratory programming practices exceptionally well. However, inexperienced programmers typically face a steep learning curve until they can reach the promised efficiency in such tools. They need a long time to study best practices firsthand in real projects. The tools in use might also need adjustments, given that modern programming languages are continually introducing new features or redesigning old ones. We want to apply the idea of patterns to capture traditional and modern practices of exploratory programming. In this chapter, we focus on the workspace tool, whose core ideas transcend many different programming communities such as the Smalltalk workspace, the Unix shell, and data-analysis notebooks. We extracted the essence into a novel pattern language around the conversations that programmers have with their environment. We believe that our work can help programmers to quickly understand and apply the idea of workspaces, as well as tool builders to increase the efficiency of their project team when facing exploratory challenges.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09297-8_7

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