Paper Details

%T Visual Process\-Oriented Programming for Robotics
%A Jonathan Simpson, Christian L. Jacobsen
%E Peter H. Welch, S. Stepney, F.A.C Polack, Frederick R. M. Barnes, Alistair A. McEwan, G. S. Stiles, Jan F. Broenink, Adam T. Sampson
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2008
%X When teaching concurrency, using a
 process\-oriented language, it is often
 introduced through a visual representation of programs in
 the form of process network diagrams.
 These diagrams allow the design of and abstract reasoning
 about programs, consisting of concurrently executing
 communicating processes, without needing any syntactic
 knowledge of the eventual implementation language.
 Process network diagrams are usually drawn on paper or with
 general\-purpose diagramming software, meaning the program
 must be implemented as syntactically correct program code
 before it can be run. This paper presents
 POPed, an introductory
 parallel programming tool leveraging process network
 diagrams as a visual language for the creation of
 process\-oriented programs. Using only visual layout and
 connection of pre\-created components, the user can explore
 process orientation without knowledge of the
 underlying programming language, enabling a
 <q>processes first</q> approach to parallel
 programming. POPed has been targeted specifically at
 basic robotic control, to provide a context in which
 introductory parallel programming can be naturally
 motivated.

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