This study examines the mental representations formed during program comprehension and
maintenance by procedural and object-oriented (OO) experts. The programmer's mental …

This exploratory study examines the nature of program understanding strategies employed
during a series of comprehension and maintenance activities carried out over time. Two …

This paper reports on two experiments comparing mental representations and program
comprehension by novices in the object-oriented and procedural styles. The subjects were …

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 …

Previous studies on program comprehension were carried out largely in the context of
procedural languages. Our purpose is to develop and evaluate a cognitive model of object …

The objective of this study was to determine whether the mental representation of object-
oriented programs differs from imperative programs for novice programmers. In our study …

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

Program comprehension is a major time-consuming activity in software maintenance.
Understanding the underlying mechanisms of program comprehension is therefore …

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

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