Direction and scope of comprehension-related activities by procedural and object-oriented programmers: An empirical study

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 139-148

  Corritore, Cynthia L ^a   Wiedenbeck, Susan ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational institutions; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic switching systems; Information analysis; Information science; Programming profession; Tellurium

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

BOTTOM-UP ORIENTATION; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC SWITCHING SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION AND MAINTENANCES; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; PROGRAMMING PROFESSION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84951089191     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2000.852488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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