Examines the direction and scope of comprehension-related activities of professional
programmers carrying out several program comprehension and maintenance activities over …

This paper investigates the interplay between high level debugging strategies and low level
tactics in the context of a multi-representation software development environment (SDE). It …

The representation of computer programming problems in relation to the organization of
programming knowledge is examined. An experiment previously done for physics …

Within the context of software development, psychological complexity is a measure of the
difficulty a programmer experiences when interacting with a program. To date there has …

This paper presents a cognitive framework for describing behaviors involved in program
composition, comprehension, debugging, modification, and the acquisition of new …

Computer programming knowledge can be classified into five levels of abstraction:
objective, conceptual, functional, logical, and physical. An experiment was carried out to …

This study attempted to identify those problem-solving skills that predict success for a
college student enrolled in a computer science course. During the first week of the course …

Fragile knowledge and neglected strategies in novice programmers | Papers presented at the
first workshop on empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers skip …

Comprehending computer programs is one of the core software engineering activities.
Software comprehension is required when a programmer maintains, reuses, migrates …

Judging the relative quality of computer programs and a programmer's comprehension of a
given program has proven to be a difficult task. Ability to debug, modify, hand simulate …