An approach for categorizing end user programmers to guide software engineering research

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on End-User Software Engineering, WEUSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Scaffidi, Christopher ^a   Shaw, Mary ^a   Myers, Brad ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; End user programming; End user software engineering

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ABSTRACTION; END USER POPULATION; END USER PROGRAMMERS; END USER PROGRAMMING; END USERS; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 84943622083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083231.1083232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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