An empirical study of novice program comprehension in the imperative and object-oriented styles

An empirical study of novice program comprehension in the imperative and object-oriented styles (1997)

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by Vennila Ramalingam , Susan Wiedenbeck

Venue:	In Papers presented at the Seventh Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers
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TITLE	An empirical study of novice program comprehension in the imperative and object-oriented styles	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Vennila Ramalingam	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Computer Science and Engineering Department; University of Nebraska	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Susan Wiedenbeck	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Computer Science and Engineering Department; University of Nebraska	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	The objective of this study was to determine whether the mental representation of object-oriented programs differs from imperative programs for novice programmers. In our study novices who had little or no previous programming experience studied and answered questions about three imperative and three object-oriented programs. The questions targeted information categories making up the program model and the domain model representations of the programs. It was found that there was a sharp contrast between the mental representations of the imperative and object-oriented programs. While the comprehension of the imperative programs was better overall than that of the object-oriented programs, the mental representations of the imperative programs focused on program-level knowledge. On the other hand, the mental representations of the object-oriented programs focused more strongly on domain-level knowledge. The results tend to support the view that language notations differ in how well they support the extraction of various kinds of information. 1.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1997	INFERENCE
VENUE	In Papers presented at the Seventh Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	124--139	INFERENCE
VOLUME	24	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	20 found	ParsCit 1.0