Despite their ability to help with program correctness, assertions have been notoriously unpopular--even with professional programmers. End-user programmers seem even less likely ...
Aaron Wilson, Margaret M. Burnett, Laura Beckwith,...
Human-computer systems intended for time-critical multitasking need to be designed with an understanding of how humans can coordinate and interleave perceptual, memory, and motor ...
Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected similar errors may help novi...
It is important to focus on security aspects during the development cycle to deliver reliable software. However, locating security faults in complex systems is difficult and ther...
Self-explaining is a beneficial learning strategy for studying worked-out examples because it either supplies missing information through the generation of inferences or because it...
Robert G. M. Hausmann, Timothy J. Nokes, Kurt VanL...