Introduction to Generative Computing

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Generative Computing

2. Goals

3. What is Generative Computing?

4. Technologies comprising "Generative Computing"

5. How generative computing works

6. Generation phases and binding

7. Static vs. dynamic approaches

8. Generic vs. Generative Computing

9. Stumbling into generative programming: A document processing framework

10. Code Generation

11. Reasons for code generation

12. Code Generation Process

13. Code Generation Decision Tree

14. Examples for code generation

15. A simple class template

16. Generating Glue Code for Frameworks

17. Active vs. passive Generators

18. Code driven vs. Model driven Generators

19. Example of code-driven generation

20. Code Generation vs. Compilation

21. Is Code also a model?

22. Imperative vs. declarative Code

23. End-to-end vs. Platform Generation

24. Template Problems

25. Limits to code generation

26. Model Driven Architecture (MDA)