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Comp 524-Programming Languages �Eclipse Difficulty/Helper Plugin

Instructor: Prasun Dewan (FB 150, dewan@unc.edu)

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Table of Contents

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Motivation: Why Detect Programmer Difficulty

Introspection: review your pain points and solutions.

Collaboration: Manual or automated help on difficulty detection

Inspection/testing: Correlation between difficulty and bugs?

Task and document adaptation

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Detection of Programming Difficulty (Slow Progress)

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Status Inference 🡪 Status Communication

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Status Inference 🡪 Collaborative Difficulty Resolution

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Data for Difficulty Detection

Program

Test case data

Programming Environment Commands

Web Accesses

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Data for Difficulty Detection

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Raw Data: Eclipse Commands

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Metrics

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Chrome Accesses

No Facebook accesses, log “safe” accesses (piazza, stackoverflow, edu sites – can disable some)

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(Un) Installing Plug-in

A plug-in can possibly misbehave/slow you down

We show you both how to install it and uninstall it

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Help🡪Install New Software

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Hermes Plug-in Site and Check Hermes:

Enter: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dewan/plugins/hermes in work with and hit return

Check HermesFeature

Next

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Confirm

Check HermesFeature

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Accept License

License is empty now, but may add text

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Trust Us

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Restart Eclipse

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Getting to View to Record Difficulties

Window🡪Others

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Open View

Hermes🡪DifficultyStatus

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Difficulty Status View

When in Difficulty, press surmountable or insurmountable difficulty.

Insurmountable: After having thought about it, you have no clue right now on how to solve the problem and are stopping to ask for help or think later

Surmountable: After having thought about it, you have some ideas on how the difficulty may be solved, but do not know the exact solution

Progress: After having thought about it, you know exactly what to do (normal mode, no difficulty)

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Elaborate on Surmountable or Insurmountable Difficulty

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Example Filled Form

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Configuring Plug-in Before or after Installing It

This is an optional step in case you want to receive difficult and non-difficulty notifications, called slow progress and making progress which you can correct

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Download Configuration File

Go to google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1AQrdEHvKSQZIAwEuezpkOhA8hiZBtMdj

Right Click helper-config.properties and select download

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Navigate to Your Home Directory

Go to C:\Users\<user name>

Mac

Windows

Linux

Go to ~/<user name>

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Create Sub Directory in Home

Create helper-config in Home directory

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Move Downloaded File to Subdirectory

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Use Text Editor to Open It

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Uncomment showStatusTransitions

Line 12 to be uncommented

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Restart Eclipse

File is read when Eclipse Starts Up

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Uninstalling Plugin

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Help🡪Install New Software

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Click on: Already Installed

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HermesFeature Uninstall

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Click Finish

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Restart Eclipse

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