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TSE
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Understanding Exception Handling: Viewpoints of Novices and Experts
Several recent studies indicate that many industrial applications exhibit poor quality in the design of exception-handling. To improve the quality of error-handling, we need to und...
Hina Shah, Carsten Görg, Mary Jean Harrold
JITE
2006
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14 years 12 days ago
On the Design and Development of a UML-Based Visual Environment for Novice Programmers
learning abstract computer concepts. In addition, visualization helps novices construct a mental model of concepts, which is pivotal to further comprehension and understanding. Sec...
Brian D. Moor, Fadi P. Deek
VL
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Novice Comprehension of Programs Using Task-Specific and Non-Task-Specific Constructs
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...
Alec Engebretson, Susan Wiedenbeck
SAC
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Social music making on the web with CODES
Music making is usually considered as mostly a solitary activity done by composers, but with the current Web 2.0 technology it is possible to provide new possibilities for social ...
Evandro Manara Miletto, Marcelo Soares Pimenta, Je...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
What do you know?: experts, novices and territoriality in collaborative systems
When experts participate in collaborative systems, tension may arise between them and novice contributors. In particular, when experts perceive novices as a bother or a threat, th...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Dan Cosley, Geri Gay