Learning about Programming by Example

This page is a collection of resources for learning about Programming by Example. It is not meant to be exhaustive. For more complete information, see the list of researchers working on Programming by Example.

A one-page introduction and a short introductory article to the topic of Programming by Example.

The major resource is the book Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration, edited by Allen Cypher, co-edited by Dan Halbert, David Kurlander, Henry Lieberman, David Maulsby, Brad Myers, and Alan Turransky, and published by MIT Press in 1993. This 650 page book contains descriptions of 18 different systems, and much supporting material covering history, terminology, and references in the field.

Some projects on Programming by Example

Programming by Example projects at the MIT Media Lab:

Mondrian, a graphical editor programmable by example.

Tinker, a PBE system for Lisp with conditionals and recursion.

Home page for the CMU Demonstrational Interfaces Project

Projects at StageCast Software :

Cocoa, [formerly KidSim], a children's simulation environment

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