Novices on the computer: a review of the literature

CM Allwood - International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1986 - Elsevier
… Also in contrast to the experts, the novices tend to develop more … , the novices do not have
the same ability as the experts to … the novices and the experts was in ability to comprehend the …

Measuring programming experience

J Feigenspan, C Kästner, J Liebig… - … comprehension  …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
programming experience with a valid and reliable tool, so that we can control its influence
on program comprehension. … We could recruit programming experts and novices as subjects …

Mental representations of expert procedural and object-oriented programmers in a software maintenance task

CL Corritore, S Wiedenbeck - International Journal of Human-Computer …, 1999 - Elsevier
… This study examines the mental representations formed during program comprehension
OO) experts. The programmer’s mental representation reflects comprehension of a program and …

Program comprehension and code complexity metrics: An fmri study

N Peitek, S Apel, C Parnin… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… approach a task (eg, physics novices and experts categorize problems based on different
aspects [42]). We allowed participants to self-choose the number of categories because we …

A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers

R Lister, ES Adams, S Fitzgerald, W Fone… - ACM SIGCSE …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
… emphasis on program comprehension and tracing… expert programmers to see how their
approach to answering these twelve multiple choice questions compares with that of the novices

How experts and novices search the Web

D Tabatabai, BM Shore - Library & information science research, 2005 - Elsevier
Novices were 10 undergraduate pre-service teachers, intermediates were 9 final-year master
of library and information studies students, and experts … between novices and experts were …

Are visual programming languages better? The role of imagery in program comprehension

R Navarro-Prieto, JJ Canas - International Journal of Human-Computer …, 2001 - Elsevier
… e!ects in the area of program comprehension. First, we will start by … of program comprehension
and visual programming languages. … by experts and novice in object-oriented program

Expertise in debugging computer programs: A process analysis

I Vessey - International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1985 - Elsevier
expert and novice debugging processes with the aim of contributing to a general theory of
programming expertise. The … First, an expert-novice classification of subjects was derived from …

The Effects of Visual Cues and Learners' Field Dependence in Multiple External Representations Environment for Novice Program Comprehension

LT Wei, S Sazilah - Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012 - learntechlib.org
novice learners are unable to extract higher-order information during program comprehension
… For instance, rather than the control flow strategy used by expert programmers, novice

Evaluating the effectiveness roles of variables in the novice programmers learning

N Shi, W Cui, P Zhang, X Sun - Journal of Educational …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
… In this research, the SOLO categories for program comprehension are used for evaluating
the reading skills and SOLO categories for construction were used for the writing skills. …