How intuitive is object-oriented design?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 41-46

  Hadar, Irit ^a   Leron, Uri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; DISCIPLINED KNOWLEDGE; INTUITIVE ORIGINS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 43749108348     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1342327.1342336     Document Type: Article

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