An empirical study of programmer learning during incremental software development

Fourth IEEE Conference on Cognitive Informatics 2005, ICCI 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 340-349

  Xu, Shaochun ^a   Rajlich, Václav ^a   Marcus, Andrian ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

DIALOG BASED PROTOCOL; LEARNING THEORY; PROGRAMMER LEARNING; REORGANIZATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33747159933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2005.1532650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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