Two studies of opportunistic programming: Interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1589-1598

  Brandt, Joel ^a,b   Guo, Philip J ^a   Lewenstein, Joel ^a   Dontcheva, Mira ^b   Klemmer, Scott R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy and paste; Opportunistic programming; Prototyping

Indexed keywords

COPY-AND-PASTE; JUST-IN-TIME LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE WORK; LEXICAL STRUCTURES; ON-LINE PROGRAMMING; ONLINE RESOURCES; OPPORTUNISTIC PROGRAMMING; WRITING CODES;

COPYING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 84892461336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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