Integrated Development Environement (IDE) Tag Cloud Code Shortcuts (30-Nov-2011)

Integrated Development Environement (IDE) Tag Cloud Code Shortcuts

The more experienced developers are with writing code, the more it becomes like a second language to them. Developers' fingers quickly complete blocks of code without them needing to think about what it means in their native language. Developers tend to evolve a certain style that they use during all their development work. That style can be recognized by an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and quickly formatted to make satisfy the developer's requirements. IDEs have the ability to store commonly-used shortcuts to quickly provide suggestions to the user.

Prior art includes:

• Methods and Systems for Previewing Content with a Dynamic Tag Cloud. [1]

• SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACILITATING A REAL-TIME VIRTUAL .. [2]

• Eclipse templates

This invention focuses on the analysis of a developer's coding words in order to provide a cloud tag for them. The cloud tag allows the developer to easily choose from the tag cloud and more quickly type commands.

Implementation

1. Developers and testers interact with their IDEs just as they do today

2. The developer wishes to implement our proposed invention

3. The developer enables the invention through a preference within the IDE

4. The IDE then analyzes the code for a:

A. Specific class

B. Package

C. Project

D. Workspace

5. The system determines commonly used code practices

6. Based on the preferences set by the user the number of shortcuts to display in the tag cloud is determined

A. As many as will fit in the user interface (UI)

B. The top X code snippets.

C. Only those shortcuts related to the current

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