ABQMT

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ABQMT
A Best Quality Map Technology

• Aryeh Tasher
• Brian Ramos
• Qijun Zhong
• Michael Li
• Tian Zhang

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What is ABQMT?

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

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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 dont like Java
• We want a good grade in PLT

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The Solution

• ABQMT!
• Makes the creation of simple maps easy and
  efficient
• Lets take a look at a simple map we would want
  to describe

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A Simple Map

• Too much Java Code
• ABQMT to the rescue!

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ABQMTs Solution
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Nodes Declarations
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Edges and Anchors
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Make Connections
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Syntactic Construction
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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

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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)
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Translator Architecture
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Testing

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

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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

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Conclusion

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

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Lesson Learned

• Team communication is valuable
• SVN
• Google groups
• Schedule

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Demo

• Now for the ABQMT version of the Manchester map