A survey of external representations employed in object-oriented programming environments

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 387-419

  Romero, Pablo ^a   Cox, Richard ^a   du Boulay, Benedict ^a   Lutz, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

External representations; Program comprehension; Program visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042833284     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1045-926X(03)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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