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Formulate Solution to the Visual Programming Challenge

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Abstract

The objective of the Visual Programming Challenge is to provide a comparative basis for evaluation of progress in the development of visual/multimodal languages, particularly for non-professional programmers. Presented herein is one solution to this challenge. It is expressed in Formulate, an equation-based (or form-based) programming language. Formulate employs a non-linear two-dimensional combination of textual and visual representations. While the language retains a high degree of expressiveness it is targeted at individuals with minimum to no formal programming training. Building on the successful ideas of spreadsheets, Formulate attempts to generalize such ideas while keeping simple solutions simple. In this paper, a brief introduction to Formulate is given, followed by a description of the Formulate solution to the VPC problem.

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