… is to evaluate the effect on program comprehension of three … programmer expertise (expert
versus novice), programming … the mental model approach to comprehension based on van …

… (OO) program comprehension by experts and novices. We examine the effect of expertise
in three dimensions of comprehension strategies: the scope of the comprehension, the top-…

… good naming style in programs improves program comprehension has important implications
for both programming practice and theories of program comprehension. Two experiments …

… program, and how it functioned to achieve this purpose. The aim was to get a better measure
of program comprehension. … for the comprehension scores, although the Expertise x Line …

… Effects of expertise on strategies and performance In addition to the investigation of effects
of strategies on program comprehension, this research has explored the effects of expertise …

… Program comprehension is a complex problem solving process. We report on an … expert
programmers’ comprehension behavior in the context of modifying a complex PASCAL program. …

… But, as our aim was to model the program comprehension process and expertise effects,
rather than measure the magnitude of these effects, we do not believe these concerns call into …

… as areas of computer programming expertise, to investigate … In this study we focus on
program comprehension, which is … mean, simply, understanding existing program code [18, 41]. …

… Here we must make clear that we do not manipulate expertise in the problem domain (all …
expertise in the programming domain. We compare expert programmers in 00 programming …

… the role of programming knowledge in program comprehension and the … of programming
knowledge in program comprehension: knowledge of text structure and knowledge of program …