Empirical Studies of Programming Knowledge

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-10, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 595-609

  Soloway, Elliot ^a   Ehrlich, Kate ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive models of programming; Index Terms; novice expert differences; program conprehension; software psychology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0021494691     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1984.5010283     Document Type: Article

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