Iconic Programming Research Articles

Research on the Entertainment Marketing Challenge of HBO

With the development of the global entertainment industry, film and television productions are increasingly branded as commodities in today’s cultural consumption market. Viewing film and television have become an important part of people’s daily and cultural lives, it is particularly urgent to explore the development status and future trends of streaming brands. As a producer of mainstream film and television culture, HBO has grown across media and expanded its brand across the U.S. and international television landscape, where it is now a full-service content provider of original and iconic programming with a unique brand. Although it is generally believed that the birth of HBO changed the world, cable television has also changed how the network continues to shape popular culture and television industry, leading the way in reforming audiovisual consumption patterns, HBO is now facing increasingly serious challenges. This paper focuses on how HBO successfully promotes its programming, the problems that have arisen while expanding its brand in the U.S. and international television landscape and attempts to explore the optimization possibilities of its improvement policy and make recommendations.

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Political Satire, That Was The Week That Was, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

The political satire boom in the United States and the United Kingdom experienced a brief, albeit notorious success on British and American television, most notably represented by That Was The Week That Was. In the United States, the satire boom largely evaporated with the assassination of President Kennedy. This article examines the transatlantic history of this iconic programme during the Kennedy years and how that transatlantic exchange manifested in the midst of the immediate aftermath of Kennedy’s death with the British satirists’ hastily produced tribute episode a day after the American president’s assassination, its broadcast on NBC twice in the days following the assassination, and the Anglophilic response by American audiences to the programme in voluminous letters sent to the BBC.

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Representations of sustainability and environmental welfare in Country Calendar

ABSTRACT This article examines representations of sustainability and environmental welfare in episodes of the iconic Aotearoa New Zealand television programme, Country Calendar. It initially locates the programme within the rural idyll myth and then outlines different understandings of sustainability while highlighting the normative basis of sustainability. The analysis identifies different portrayals of sustainability across episodes from the 2019 series, ranging from sustainable development, where sustainability practices are incorporated within existing economic and industry regimes, to more substantive expressions of sustainability that evoke different ways of living on the land and which more directly challenge dominant values of consumer capitalism. The analysis then reveals the ‘content’ of sustainability, ranging from enhancing soil quality to reduced plastic usage. Finally, the analysis also identifies the significance of social and cultural features of sustainability, ranging from community mobilisation to educational strategies that are put into practice on the farms.

High-functioning autistic children programming robotic behaviour

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the ability of high-functioning autistic (HFA) children to programme robotic behaviour and sought to elucidate how they describe and construct a robot’s behaviour using iconic programming software.Design/methodology/approachThe robotic learning environment is based on the iPad, an iconic programming app (KinderBot), and EV3. Two case studies, of A. and N., both HFA children of average age 10.5, are the focus of this research.FindingsThe research revealed how the participants succeeded in programming the behaviour of an “other” at different programming complexity levels (from simple action to combinations of states of two binary sensors and rule with subroutine). A transformation from procedural to declarative description was also found.Practical implicationsThis research on the ability of HFA children to programme robotic behaviour yielded results that can be implemented in K-12 education. Furthermore, learning to programme robots and understand how robotic technologies work may help HFA children to better understand other technology in their environment.Originality/valueIn this research, the authors present an innovative approach that for the first time enables HFA children to “design” the behaviour of smart artefacts to use their sensors to adapt in accordance with the environment. For most HFA children, this would be the first opportunity to “design” the behaviour of the other, as opposed to oneself, since in most of their experience they have been largely controlled by another person.

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Los púlpitos de San Miguel en Jerez de la Frontera. Reconstrucción y análisis dentro del programa apocalíptico del templo

En el Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Jerez se conservan los restos de los dos púlpitos que, construidos en el siglo XVI por el maestro Pedro Fernández de la Zarza para el templo de San Miguel, fueron retirados en el siglo XVIII. Se hace un análisis iconográ co, diferenciando los restos pertenecientes a cada uno de los púlpitos, e intentando una posible reconstrucción de ambas piezas por medio de hipótesis de las imágenes perdidas. Una vez reconstruidos, se contextualizan los púl- pitos dentro del programa icónico del templo, cuyo hilo conductor es el texto apocalíptico, en el cual San Miguel desempeña un papel protagonista.

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Scalable Connectionless Iconic Programming

Experiences with an icon-like expression evaluation system

The design of the Icon programming language's expression evaluation system, which can perform limited backtracking, was unique amongst imperative programming languages when created. In this paper I explain and critique the original Icon design and show how a similar system can be integrated into a modern dynamically typed language. Finally I detail my experiences of this system and offer suggestions for the lessons to be learned from it.

Tomorrow's world: telecare

Since it was first aired in 1965, the BBC's iconic programme Tomorrow's World informed, instructed and entertained viewers with a glimpse of how we would live in decades to come.

Session details: Iconic programming

Session details: Iconic programming

The effect of integrating an Iconic programming notation into CS1

Increasing pressure from national government to improve throughput at South African tertiary education institutions presents challenges to educators of CS1 courses. In response, educators must adopt effective methods and strategies that encourage students to be successful in such courses. An approach that seeks to increase and maintain satisfactory throughput is the modification of the teaching model in these courses by adjusting presentation techniques. This paper reports on a study into the effect of integrating an experimental iconic programming notation and associated development environment with existing conventional textual technological support in the teaching model of a CS1 course. The paper reports on the comparison of the performance achievement of students using only conventional textual technological support with that of students using the integrated iconic and conventional textual technological support. The findings suggest strong evidence that the performance achievement of students in a CS1 course improves significantly with the inclusion of iconic technological support in the teaching model. Considerably more students using the integrated form of technological support are in fact successful in the CS1 course when compared with their counterparts who use conventional textual technological support only.

Iconic programming for flowcharts, java, turing, etc

One of the largest barriers to learning programming is the precise and complex syntax required to write programs. This barrier is a key impediment to the integration of programming into the core curriculum of general high school science courses - there is not enough time to learn both syntax and programming in a three-week course module. The newly developed "Iconic Programmer" allows executable programs to be written through mouse clicks and menus, includes symbol by symbol translation into Java and Turing, and comes complete with a three-week lesson plan suitable to new programmers. To date, the new tool has been used effectively with full-semester, introductory programming courses at both the university and high school level.

ObjectKarel

In recent years, extensive research has been conducted on the difficulties encountered by novices when being taught programming. These studies have shown that an important factor of these difficulties is the teaching methodology used, which is based on: a) a general purpose programming language that is too big and too idiosyncratic, b) a professional programming environment for the chosen programming language that does not support students neither in understanding the semantics of the control structures and the flow of control nor in the process of debugging their programs, and c) a set of problems from the area of number and symbol processing that are far from the students’ everyday experiences and are not attractive to them. This ascertainment has lead many to develop new programming environments as well as alternative approaches to teaching programming. The most important approaches are Microworlds, Compilers with Improved Diagnostic Capabilities, Iconic Programming Languages and Program Animation. Taking into account the results of the research, which are related to the students’ difficulties, we developed an educational environment for teaching object-oriented programming. Our programming environment objectKarel attempts to teach programming through a microworld and is based on the programming language of Karel++. The metaphor used is that of a world of robots and the main features of objectKarel are: e-lessons: objectKarel incorporates a series of lessons that consist of theory and activities for supporting students in understanding the basic principles of object-oriented programming and the most common control structures. A special kind of structure editor: writing a program is accomplished through a menu and dialog boxes. In contrast with typical structure editors, logic, semantical and some syntax errors are deliberately not prevented. Understandable and highly informative error messages. Program animation – explanatory visualization: students have three choices of executing a program – running the program, tracing through the program, executing it step by step. When students use the last two choices of executing programs, they are also presented with explanatory messages about the semantics of the command being executed, a feature known as explanatory visualization. Recordability of students’ actions: the system autosaves the student’s program and its errors/warnings each time it is compiled.

<b>Theoretical study of the catalytic desulfurization mechanism of thiiren and its methyl derivative</b>

The desulfurization process of compounds implicates two steps. The first step is the adsorption process on the catalytic site and the second, the breaking of the carbon-heteroatom bond leading to the heteroatom elimination. The adsorption process of thiiren have been studied and published in previous works. The results obtained on MoS3H3+ and MoS4H4 have shown that the adsorption of this molecule was very good on the two and three anionic vacancies sites based on molybdenum. In the present study, we have carried out the adsorption according to vertical and horizontal geometries of dihydrothiiren, methylthiiren, and methyldihydrothiiren, and the desulfurization of all these molecules including thiiren molecule. The results obtained have shown that, the desulfurization of thiiren and its methyl derivate pass through the hydrogenation of the aromatic ring on the two types of catalytic sites. KEY WORDS: Catalytic site, Adsorption, Desulfurization, Thiiren, Icon program, PSI/77 program, QCPE Bull. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 2003, 17(1), 75-84.

A unifying approach to goal-directed evaluation

Goal-directed evaluation, as embodied in Icon and Snobol, is built on the notions of backtracking and of generating successive results, and therefore it has always been something of a challenge to specify and implement. In this article, we address this challenge using computational monads and partial evaluation.We consider a subset of Icon and we specify it with a monadic semantics and a list monad. We then consider a spectrum of monads that also fit the bill, and we relate them to each other. For example, we derive a continuation monad as a Church encoding of the list monad. The resulting semantics coincides with Gudeman's continuation semantics of Icon.We then compile Icon programs by specializing their interpreter (i.e., by using the first Futamura projection), using type-directed partial evaluation. Through various back ends, including a run-time code generator, we generate ML code, C code, and OCaml byte code. Binding-time analysis and partial evaluation of the continuation-based interpreter automatically give rise to C programs that coincide with the result of Proebsting's optimized compiler.

A Unifying Approach to Goal-Directed Evaluation

Goal-directed evaluation, as embodied in Icon and Snobol, is built on the notions of backtracking and of generating successive results, and therefore it has always been something of a challenge to specify and implement. In this article, we address this challenge using computational monads and partial evaluation.<br /> <br />We consider a subset of Icon and we specify it with a monadic semantics and a list monad. We then consider a spectrum of monads that also fit the bill, and we relate them to each other. For example, we derive a continuation monad as a Church encoding of the list monad. The resulting semantics coincides with Gudeman's continuation semantics of Icon.<br /> <br />We then compile Icon programs by specializing their interpreter (i.e., by using the first Futamura projection), using type-directed partial evaluation. Through various back ends, including a run-time code generator, we generate ML code, C code, and OCaml byte code. Binding-time analysis and partial evaluation of the continuation-based interpreter automatically give rise to C programs that coincide with the result of Proebsting's optimized compiler.

A new implementation of the Icon language

Jcon is a new, full-featured, Java-based implementation of the Icon programming language. The compiler, written in Icon, generates an intermediate representation that is optimized and then used to produce classfiles of Java bytecode. A four-chunk control-flow model handles goal-directed evaluation and produces constructs not expressible as Java code. The runtime system, written in Java, finds object-oriented programming a great advantage in implementing a dynamically typed language, with method calls replacing many conditional tests. An all-encompassing descriptor class supports values, references, and suspended operations. The procedure call interface is simple and incurs overhead for generator support only when actually needed. Performance is somewhat disappointing, and some limitations are annoying, but in general Java provides a good implementation platform. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

A new implementation of the Icon language

Jcon is a new, full-featured, Java-based implementation of the Icon programming language. The compiler, written in Icon, generates an intermediate representation that is optimized and then used to produce classfiles of Java bytecode. A four-chunk control-flow model handles goal-directed evaluation and produces constructs not expressible as Java code. The runtime system, written in Java, finds object-oriented programming a great advantage in implementing a dynamically typed language, with method calls replacing many conditional tests. An all-encompassing descriptor class supports values, references, and suspended operations. The procedure call interface is simple and incurs overhead for generator support only when actually needed. Performance is somewhat disappointing, and some limitations are annoying, but in general Java provides a good implementation platform. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.