Skilled performance on software as a function of domain expertise and program organization.
As part of a study on the recall of skilled and novice programmers, 23 subjects each viewed a 25-line BASIC program organized in one of three ways, executable order, random chunks, and random lines. Subjects performed a perceptual task in which they recopied a 25-line BASIC program on an answer she...
| Publicado en: | Perceptual & Motor Skills Vol. 85; no. 3; pp. 1471 - 1481 |
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Ammons Scientific, Ltd.
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