Measuring programming experience

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 73-82

  Feigenspan, Janet ^a   Kästner, Christian ^b   Liebig, Jörg ^c   Apel, Sven ^c   Hanenberg, Stefan ^d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; SELF ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84865018300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpc.2012.6240511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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