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Supporting Coding Activity by Associating Web Bookmarks With Source Code Features

Authors:
Ken Nakayama
Eko Sakai
Yoshihisa Nitta

Keywords: programming, web bookmark, source code feature

Abstract:
Computing tools are often provided as various kinds of software libraries. To enjoy the benefit of the latest technologies, a user has to continuously learn their usage. During such learning activity, referring to various web articles is a common practice for programmers. Although a variety of information can be found on the web, specific information of interest tends to exist fragmented and scattered on many web pages. Therefore, bookmarking them in a well-organized way is inevitable for later use. However, manually organizing bookmarks requires extra effort for a user. To overcome the problem, a semi-automatic bookmark manager for coding related web pages is presented. A prototype system is implemented as a plug-in of an integrated development environment. The system observes bookmarking activity by a user on a web browser, and associates each bookmark with (1) features of the source code being edited, and (2) features of the source code editing in current session. The target language of prototype system is Java. User experience of the prototype is presented as preliminary evaluation.

Pages: 84 to 89

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: September 29, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4499

ISBN: 978-1-61208-290-5

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from September 29, 2013 to October 3, 2013