Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
This study examines the comprehension and modification by novices of programs written with taskspecific and non-task-specific constructs. Teachers who write programs for use in th...
Previous studies have shown that novices do not tend to extract or use data-flow information during program comprehension. However, for impact analysis and similar tasks, data-ï¬...
This paper explores the potential for simplified programming languages to support the development of computational thinking skills in non-programmers. We suggest that novice progr...
Web services are increasingly attracting attention for their ability to provide standard interfaces to heterogeneous distributed services. Through these standard interfaces, it is...