A visual programming interface for Smalltalk
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
It has been hypothesized that "visual" programming can lead to faster development and better programs. Whether this hope is justified still remains to be seen and one of the aims of the work is to provide tools allowing an objective exploration of this hypothesis. The visual syntax described in the paper defines a graphical representation of messages and the "flow" of objects within a method. Its implementation allows methods to be viewed and edited either graphically or as text with immediate conversion from one form to the other. Graphical representation eliminates certain types of programming errors and provides better presentation of the semantics and logic of the code. It also helps visualise code tracing in a more object-oriented way. While the experience suggests that graphical representation makes code easier to understand, further empirical study is required.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it