This thesis describes research into the role of various factors in novice program
comprehension, including the underlying programming paradigm, the representational …

Mental representations of programs for student and professional programmers | Empirical
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This paper presents five abstract characteristics of the mental representation of computer
programs hierarchical structure, explicit mapping of code to goals, foundation on recognition …

It is difficult to introduce both novice and experienced procedural programmers to the
anthropomorphic perspective necessary for object-oriented design. We introduce CRC …

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

Object-oriented programming has, in recent years, become the most influential programming
paradigm. It is widely used in education and industry, and almost every university teaches …

In a series of two experiments, computer-naive students learned the BASIC computer
programming language either by solving and receiving feedback on program …

There exists a buzzword in the user interface research community that symbolizes how the
user should feel about a computer-based environment in which productive work can be …

Programming languages embody two principal forms of conditional statement, the nesting
if… then… else… form and the goto form. Sime, Green & Guest (1974) compared these two …

This paper documents a study, carried out in the academic year 2003-2004, on fifteen
factors that may influence performance on a first year object-oriented programming module …