Comprehension of computer programs involves detecting or inferring different kinds of
relations between program parts. Different kinds of programming knowledge facilitate …

Comprehension of computer programs involves identifying important program parts and
inferring relationships between them. The ability to comprehend a computer program is a …

This paper presents five abstract characteristics of the mental representation of computer
programs hierarchical structure, explicit mapping of code to goals, foundation on recognition …

This paper reports on an empirical study of the cognitive processes involved in program
comprehension. Verbal protocols were gathered from professional programmers as they …

This paper presents five abstract characteristics of the mental representation of computer
programs: hierarchical structure, explicit mapping of code to goals, foundation on …

This research studied the comprehension of small procedural and object-oriented programs
by novice programmers. The objective was to find out what kinds of information novice …

Department of Psychology Rutgers–The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ
08903 koeneman@ paul. rutgers. edu Program comprehension is a complex problem …

We have been investigating the cognitive underpinnings of how programmers—novices and
experts—read and write computer programs. Our approach has been to employ a cycle of …

Recent research using professional programmers suggests that knowledge of the
application domain plays a major role in the cognitive processes they use to understand …

The goal of our study is to evaluate the effect on program comprehension of three factors
that have not previously been studied in a single experiment. These factors are programmer …