The Psychological Study of Programming

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 101-120

  Sheil, B A ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 84976744311     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/356835.356840     Document Type: Article

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