WIP3IG...!

WIPPPIG is a "Work in Progress" meeting of the "Psychology of Programming Interest Group", with a longterm tradition of looking at the new and novel and understanding what programming might in fact be!

A strong theme within PPIG has been the application of Psychology of Programming to Computer Science Education. This application is our theme for 2020.

This year we would like to explore the issues and challenges and potential solutions to acquiring effective computing skills and supporting their development. We invite short papers, poster, videos and demos that capture work in progress in exploring topics such as: computer science and teaching and learning; early years programming; pedagogic theories applied to programming; programming language accessibility and adoption; ethics, power and programming in Digital Transformation. 

As always we welcome submissions that innovate, provoke thought and question commonly held assumptions about what programming is and can be. For example, a fashionable presumption seems to be that "we" all are programmers who have just never been taught properly. And by contrast some propose that conventional programming will be surpassed by Deep Learning Machines which themselves will need to be configured if not programmed!

We expect discussion will be lively and fresh. Contributions touching on any of PPIG’s traditional interests will be welcome:

• Music(al) programming

• Liveness and interactivity in programming

• Programming education and craft skill acquisition

• Human centred design and evaluation of programming languages, tools and infrastructure

• Programming and human cognition

• Team/co-operative work in programming

• End user programming

• Distributed programming, programming distribution

• Culture and programming

• New paradigms in programming

• Code quality, readability, productivity and re-use

• Mistakes, bugs and errors

• Notational design

• Data programming

• Unconventional interactions and quasi-programming

• Non-human programming

• Technology support for creativity

SUBMISSIONS:

We welcome the following categories of submissions:

• Work In Progress reports: Up to 4 pages long; 

• Proposals for system demonstrations, videos, or even artworks are welcome and should be accompanied by a short abstract (1 page max). Buggy demo's welcome, though not essential! 

Please use our templates for all submissions. Submissions for the workshop should be uploaded to EasyChair. In the spirit of PPIG, they will be very lightly reviewed.

COSTS:

As is common with WIPPPIG we aim to run the event at minimal delegate costs, specifics will be announced nearer the time.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Deadline for all submissions 15th Jan'

• Notification to authors 26th Jan'

• The event 17th Feb - 18th Feb'

LOCATION:

Sheffield Hallam University, 

Cantor Building, 153 Arundel Street, 

Sheffield, 

S1 2NU, 

UK

Looking forwards to seeing you in Sheffield: Chris, Elizabeth, Charles

(c.boisvert@shu.ac.uk)