Psychological experiments have shown that programmers tend to use the same structure
over and over. The authors call these commonly used programming structures' cliches'. They …

The recognition of familiar computational structures in a program can help an experienced
programmer to understand a program. Automating this recognition process will facilitate …

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 the initial design and partial implementation of an interactive
programming environment to be used by expert programmers. The system is based on three …

Recognizing standard computational structures (cliches) in a program can help an
experienced programmer understand the program. We develop a graph parsing approach to …

The long-term goal of the Programmer's Apprentice project is to develop a theory of how
expert programmers analyze, synthesize, modify, explain, specify, verify and document …

Mental representations of programs for student and professional programmers | Empirical
studies of programmers: second workshop skip to main content ACM Digital Library home ACM …

We suggest that expert programmers have and use two types of programming knowledge: 1)
programming plans, which are generic program fragments that represent stereotypic action …

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 describes a program called PROUST which does on-line analysis and
understanding of Pascal written by novice programmers. PROUST takes as input a program …