Peer interaction effectively, yet infrequently, enables programmers to discover new tools

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 405-414

  Murphy Hill, Emerson ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discovery; Learning; Programmers; Programming tools

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

DISCOVERY; LEARNING; PEER INTERACTIONS; PROGRAMMERS; PROGRAMMING TOOLS; QUALITATIVE DATA; REMOTE SETTINGS; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79955151002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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