Searching the library and asking the peers: Learning to use Java APIs on demand

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 272, Issue , 2007, Pages 41-50

  Ye, Yunwen ^a,c   Yamamoto, Yasuhiro ^b   Nakakoji, Kumiyo ^b,c   Nishinaka, Yoshiyuki ^c   Asada, Mitsuhiro ^c  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SRA KTL Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expertise location; Java API; Peer support; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EXPERTISE LOCATION; JAVA API; PEER SUPPORT; PROGRAMMING PRODUCTIVITY;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 41149144207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1294325.1294332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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