Paper Info
Title
Study of novice programmers using Eclipse and Gild
Abstract
In this paper we discuss a pilot user study that compares the use of two integrated development environments (IDEs), Eclipse and Gild, by novice programmers. Gild is a perspective for Eclipse that is intended to be more suitable for first-year students who are learning how to program in Java. This study focuses on qualitative and quantitative measures; the quantitative measures include: efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction and understanding. Two statistically significant results are obtained from the satisfaction measure, in particular: the frustration level and the overall level of satisfaction. The mean differences for the remaining measures indicate that Gild was more suitable for novices than Eclipse. Qualitative analysis yields suggestions for improvement for both interfaces and also identifies areas of success.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1117696.1117718
ETX
Keywords
Field
DocType
overall level,first-year student,integrated development environment,qualitative analysis yields suggestion,frustration level,satisfaction measure,mean difference,pilot user study,quantitative measure,novice programmer
Systems engineering,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Eclipse,Java
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-342-5
5
0.47
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter C. Rigby168235.28
Suzanne Thompson2121.54