A situated cognition view about the effects of planning and authorship on computer program debugging

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 325-337

  Law, Lai Chong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEWEY THEORY; GIBSON THEORY; SITUATED COGNITION THEORY;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 0032204502     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492998119283     Document Type: Article

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