Garbage in, garbage out? An empirical look at oracle mistakes by end-user programmers

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 45-52

  Phalgune, Amit ^a   Kissinger, Cory ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Cook, Curtis ^a   Beckwith, Laura ^a   Ruthruff, Joseph R ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGING DEVICES; END-USER PROGRAMMERS; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER VISION; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33646502732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2005.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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