Code Thumbnails: Using spatial memory to navigate source code

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 11-18

  De Line, Robert ^a   Czerwinski, Mary ^a   Meyers, Brian ^a   Venolia, Gina ^a   Drucker, Steven ^a   Robertson, George ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATIVE EVALUATION; MODERN DEVELOPMENT; NEW DESIGN; SOURCE CODES; SPATIAL MEMORY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; NAVIGATION; VISUALIZATION;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 81455128315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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