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ECLIPSE
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting empirical studies by non-intrusive collection and visualization of fine-grained revision history
This paper presents a code-revision history collection and visualization Eclipse plugin for use in empirical studies of programmers. The revision history is collected non-intrusiv...
Jacky Chan, Alan Chu, Elisa L. A. Baniassad
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 5 months ago
SmartTutor: Creating IDE-based interactive tutorials via editable replay
Interactive tutorials, like Eclipse's cheat sheets, are good for novice programmers to learn how to perform tasks (e.g., checking out a CVS project) in an Integrated Developm...
Ying Zhang, Gang Huang, Nuyun Zhang, Hong Mei
ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Novice Java programmers' conceptions of "object" and "class", and variation theory
Problems with understanding concepts, so called misconceptions, have been investigated and reported in a number of studies regarding object-oriented programming [4], [3]. In a fi...
Anna Eckerdal, Michael Thuné
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Debugging: the good, the bad, and the quirky -- a qualitative analysis of novices' strategies
A qualitative analysis of debugging strategies of novice Java programmers is presented. The study involved 21 CS2 students from seven universities in the U.S. and U.K. Subjects &q...
Laurie Murphy, Gary Lewandowski, Renée McCa...
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Example centric programming
Programmers tend to understand programs by thinking of concrete examples. Example Centric Programming seeks to add IDE support for examples throughout the process of programming. ...
Jonathan Edwards