Do class comments aid Java program understanding?

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Nurvitadhi, Eriko ^a   Leung, Wing Wah ^a   Cook, Curtis ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class vs. method comments; Empirical study; Java program understanding

Indexed keywords

JAVA BOOKS; JAVA PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STUDENTS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 1642561528     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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