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Conversational programming

  • US 8,645,914 B2
  • Filed: 01/24/2011
  • Issued: 02/04/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • allowing software code associated with one or more of a plurality of programming building blocks to be concurrently edited and executed within a programming environment, including;

    receiving, by a conversational programming agent of the programming environment, (i) information regarding the plurality of programming building blocks and (ii) information indicative of a current situation relating to the plurality of programming building blocks; and

    evaluating, by the conversational programming agent, the plurality of programming building blocks based on the current situation;

    facilitating detection of one or more logical errors in one or more of the plurality of programming building blocks by proactively providing, by the conversational programming agent, semantic feedback regarding those of the plurality of programming building blocks to which the current situation is relevant to an end user based on the evaluating;

    wherein the semantic feedback includes a plurality of colored annotations of different colors to one or more visual representations of one or more of the plurality of programming building blocks; and

    wherein the conversational programming agent is implemented in one or more processors and one or more computer-readable media of one or more computer systems, the one or more computer-readable media having instructions tangibly embodied therein that are executable by the one or more processors.

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