Uncovering Effects of Programming Paradigms: Errors in Two Spreadsheet Systems

Uncovering Effects of Programming Paradigms: Errors in Two Spreadsheet Systems (2000)

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by Markku Tukiainen

Venue:	In 12th Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG
Citations:	4 - 0 self

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TITLE	Uncovering Effects of Programming Paradigms: Errors in Two Spreadsheet Systems	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Markku Tukiainen	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of Joensuu; Department of Computer Science	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	P.O. Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	Empirical studies of spreadsheet programming have commonly shown high over all error rates but much less attention has been paid to reasons for these errors. One often mentioned cause for errors is the low conceptual level of spreadsheet systems. By changing the conceptual level of spreadsheet system, we wanted to study whether this will produce different type of errors compared to traditional spreadsheet systems. In this paper we present an empirical study comparing the traditional spreadsheet calculation paradigm with the structured spreadsheet calculation paradigm that utilizes goals, plans and spreadsheet data structures in computation. The results show that the error behavior of novice spreadsheet users is systematically different between paradigms. Introduction Traditional spreadsheet calculation systems provide a fast method to express data and to make calculations, provided that there is some natural way to lay all the data on one or more twodimensional sheets. Spreadsheet cal...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	2000	INFERENCE
VENUE	In 12th Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	247--266	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	17 found	ParsCit 1.0