Aryeh Tasher Brian Ramos Qijun Zhong Michael Li Tian Zhang

What is ABQMT? What does it do? Who can use it? The best programming language ever?

Motivation Computer scientists love graphs! Programming simple graphics in Java is too confusing (Swing, AWT, etc.) We want to use simple syntax to describe simple maps We don’t like Java We want a good grade in PLT

The Solution ABQMT! Makes the creation of simple maps easy and efficient Let’s take a look at a simple map we would want to describe…

A Simple Map Too much Java Code ABQMT to the rescue!

ABQMT’s Solution

Nodes Declarations

Edges and Anchors

Make Connections

Syntactic Construction Demo; //First line: the name of the map fileMap Attributes //x and y size,color,nameStartmap; //equivalence of main block in C Nodes declarations //declare nodes and initialize attributes Edges declarations //declare edges and initialize attributes Make connections //draw the mapEndmap; //end of program

The ABQMT Interpreter We need Java classes to provide templates and definitions for drawing windows and objects (shapes, edges etc.) Our interpreter includes these templates then translate ABQMT function into java code based on these templates

Example ABQMT: Node x = new node(55,55,RED,5,CIRCLE) ABQMT interpreter JAVA: Circle x = new circle(55,55,RED,5,CIRCLE) x.paintNode(Graphics G); …

Translator Architecture

Testing Script that iterated through tests and then printed out type information and displayed maps Print error messages when failed AntlrWorks for grammar debugging

Tools Used Front End: AntlrWorks We use it to construct recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing actions in Java Back End: Eclipse and NetBeans (Java) for static semantic analysis Version Control: SVN It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code

Conclusion ABQMT is valuable to new and experienced programmer alike ABQMT is better than Java!

Lesson Learned Team communication is valuable SVN Google groups Schedule

Demo Now for the ABQMT version of the Manchester map…