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CHI
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Effects of display blurring on the behavior of novices and experts during program debugging
The Restricted Focus Viewer (RFV) relates a small part of an otherwise blurred display to the focus of visual attention. A user controls which part of the screen is in focus by us...
Roman Bednarik, Markku Tukiainen
VL
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Introductory Computing Construct Use in an End-User Programming Community
Previous studies of end-user programmers have indicated a reliance on related examples for learning. Accordingly, we analyzed the projects contained in an online community with re...
Brian Dorn, Allison Elliott Tew, Mark Guzdial
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Eliciting design requirements for maintenance-oriented IDEs: a detailed study of corrective and perfective maintenance tasks
Recently, several innovative tools have found their way into mainstream use in modern development environments. However, most of these tools have focused on creating and modifying...
Andrew Jensen Ko, Htet Htet Aung, Brad A. Myers
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Using task context to improve programmer productivity
When working on a large software system, a programmer typically spends an inordinate amount of time sifting through thousands of artifacts to find just the subset of information n...
Mik Kersten, Gail C. Murphy
SCP
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Debugging hygienic macros
Over the past two decades, Scheme macros have evolved into a powerful API for the compiler front-end. Like Lisp macros, their predecessors, Scheme macros expand source programs in...
Ryan Culpepper, Matthias Felleisen