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Conversational programming

  • US 9,304,744 B2
  • Filed: 02/04/2014
  • Issued: 04/05/2016
  • 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, responsive to advancement of time or input by an end user of the programming environment, revising a current situation relating to the plurality of programming building blocks or revising the software code;

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

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

    responsive to said evaluating, 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, real-time, human perceptible semantic feedback regarding those of the plurality of programming building blocks to which the current situation is relevant to the end user based on the evaluating;

    wherein the real-time, human perceptible semantic feedback comprises annotating 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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