Little is known about the strategies end-user programmers use in debugging their programs, and even less is known about gender differences that may exist in these strategies. With...
Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Laura Beckwith, Valentina G...
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...
Recent research has begun to report that female enduser programmers are often more reluctant than males to employ features that are useful for testing and debugging. These earlier...
Repositories of code written by end-user programmers are beginning to emerge, but when a piece of code is new or nobody has yet reused it, then current repositories provide users ...
Christopher Scaffidi, Christopher Bogart, Margaret...
Programming has recently become more common among ordinary end users of computer systems. We believe that these end-user programmers are not just coders but also designers, in tha...
Jill Cao, Yann Riche, Susan Wiedenbeck, Margaret M...
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,...