January 2007:

The following documents form part of the research conducted by the GILD research group at the University of Victoria. This section will be updated as more documents become available.

• Gild Feature and Technical Report: (pdf)
• Gild Lesson's learned: (pdf)
• Comparative Study of Eclipse and Gild for Novice Programmers: OOPSLA_2005 (pdf)
• Suzanne Thompson's Masters' Thesis: "An Exploratory Study of Novice Programming Experiences and Errors": (pdf)

Sample Gild Course Units:

• gildunits.zip: Course units for "CSc 115: Introductory Programming 2" for use in Gild - by Peggy Storey

Other useful plugins for Gild:

• Zest: The Eclipse Visualization Toolkit - http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/zest.php
• TagSEA: Tags for Software Engineering Activities - http://tagsea.sourceforge.net

 A comparison of communication technologies to support novice team programming
Cubranic, D., M.-A. Storey and J. Ryall, "A comparison of communication technologies to support novice team programming", ICSE education track (short paper), May 2006, Shanghai, China.

 Collaboration support for novice team programming
Cubranic, D., M.-A. Storey, "Collaboration support for novice team programming," GROUP 2005, pp. 136-139, Florida, USA, November, 2005.

 Study of novice programmers using Eclipse and Gild
Rigby, P.C., S. Thompson, "Study of novice programmers using Eclipse and Gild," Eclipse Technology eXchange (eTX) Workshop at OOPSLA 2005, San Diego, California, 2005.

 Developing marking support within eclipse
Myers, D., E. Hargreaves, J. Ryall, S. Thompson, M. Burgess, D. German, and M.-A. Storey, "Developing marking support within eclipse," Eclipse Technology Exchange and Workshop, 19^th Annual ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 24-28, 2004.

 Improving the usability of Eclipse for novice programmers
Storey, M.-A., J. Michaud, M. Mindel, M. Sanseverino, D. Damian, D. Myers, D. German, and E. Hargreaves, "Improving the usability of Eclipse for novice programmers," Eclipse Technology eXchange (eTX) Workshop at OOPSLA 2003, Anaheim, California, Oct. 27, 2003.

 Adopting GILD: an integrated learning and development environment for programming
Storey, M.-A., M. Sanseverino, D. German, D. Damian, A. Damian, J. Michaud, A. Murray, R. Lintern, J. Chisan, M. Litoiu, and D. Rayside, "Adopting GILD: an integrated learning and development environment for programming," ACSE 2003: 3^rd Int. Workshop on Adoption-Centric Software Engineering ICSE 2003, the 25^th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Portland, USA, May 2003.