Continuous visual feedback is becoming a common feature in direct-manipulation programming systems of all klndsfrom demonstrational macro builders to spreadsheet packages to visual programming languages featuring direct manipulation. But does continuous visual feedback actually help in the domain of programming?
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Wilcox et al. (1997) studied this question.
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