NDLI: A focused learning environment for Eclipse

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Safer, Izzet Li, Jin Waterhouse, Julie Murphy, Gail C.
Abstract	The support available in Eclipse to help software developers learn complex APIs and development tools is inadequate; the support is largely passive and the support typically operates alongside the resources associated with normal software development tasks, thereby overloading the environment with additional complexity. In this paper, we describe an approach that enables a dynamic learning process within the context of a developer's Eclipse work environment. Our approach integrates a mechanism for explicit support of a learning process flow (cheat sheets) with a mechanism for explicit representation of different work contexts (Mylar). We have implemented a working prototype of our approach. We found it relatively easy to integrate cheat sheets with Mylar through available extension points. We describe our architecture and report on some limitations and missing features in the existing plug-ins we discovered as we developed our prototype.
Starting Page	75
Ending Page	79
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1595936211
DOI	10.1145/1188835.1188851
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2006-10-22
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Mylar Cheat sheet User assistance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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A focused learning environment for Eclipse