Cognitive Strategies and Looping Constructs: An Empirical Study

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1983, Pages 853-860

  Soloway, Elliot ^a   Bonar, Jeffrey ^a   Ehrlich, Kate ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive factors in programming; cognitive strategies; looping constructs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0020843892     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/182.358436     Document Type: Article

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