Jan 1, 1990 · The principles of cognitive psychology and human factors have been successfully applied to many aspects of human-computer interaction.

Unpublished doctoral dissertation ,. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA . COMPREHENSION OF PASCAL STATEMENTS BY. NOVICE AND EXPERT PROGRAMMER S.

The novices knew only one programming language, Pascal, while the experts varied in their knowledge of Pascal, from minimal to extensive. Subjects were ...

An experiment that studies expert programmers' comprehension behavior in the context of modifying a complex PASCAL program suggests that program ...

Measures of program comprehension used in Experiment Two suggest that Pascal education may improve debugging performance by increasing the comprehension of ...

A similar study of Pascal novices found that they also tended to use low-level procedural statements when sum- marising a program, but that subjects in the ...

Many studies have shown that expert programmers are more effective at debugging programs than novice programmers. These studies have suggested that the ...

ABSTRACT. This paper presents five abstract characteristics of the mental representation of computer programs hierarchical structure, explicit mapping of ...

Hypothesis: Expert and novice Pascal programmers will show no increase in program comprehension when excessive in- dentation is used instead of no indentation.

When Color-scheme-B is used, expert and novice. Pascal programmers will show significant increase in program comprehension when compared to programmers who ...