Abstract
End-user programming is the use of a programming language by someone not trained as a professional computer scientist or programmer. This chapter begins with the discussion by delineating the arguments over whether end-user programming is a goal worth pursuing at all—that is, whether end users should (or should be expected to) write programs. That discussion introduces the most salient pro and con arguments about end-user programming in terms that recurs throughout the chapter. Subsequently the chapter focuses on whether end-user programming is in fact distinct from what might be called professional programming, whether end users a special breed of programmers, and if so, how. This is followed by a brief discussion of children's programming as a particular instance of end-user programming. Finally the chapter describes some of the important research issues facing proponents of end-user programming in the near future.
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