Title
Toward Authentic Measures of Program Comprehension
Abstract
This paper describes an analysis scheme which was developed to probe the comprehension of computer programming languages by students learning to program. The scheme operates on free-form program summaries, i.e. textual descriptions of a program which are produced in response to minimal instructions by the researcher/experimenter. The scheme has been applied to descriptions of programs written in various languages, and it is felt that the scheme has the potential to be applied to languages of markedly different types (e.g. procedural, object- oriented, event-driven). The paper first discusses the basis for the scheme, before describing the scheme in detail. It then presents examples of the scheme's application, and concludes with a discussion of some open issues.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
PPIG
object oriented
Field
DocType
Citations 
Programming language,Computer science,Program comprehension,Multimedia,Comprehension,Student learning
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Judith Good133737.96
Paul Brna236957.14