A glimpse of expert programmers' mental imagery

Papers Presented at the 7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 109-123

  Petre, Marian ^a   Blackwell, Alan F ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert programmer behaviour; Mental imagery; Mental representation

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; CONCRETE DESIGN; DESIGN STRATEGIES; EXPERT PROGRAMMERS; MENTAL IMAGERY; MENTAL IMAGES; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT TOOLS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84898215211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/266399.266409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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