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Stimulus structures and mental representations in expert comprehension of computer programs
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“This is consistent with previous findings dating back to FORTRAN and COBOL programming [Pennington 1987], where programmers briefly shown small code snippets could best answer questions about control flow compared to data-or logic-flow.”
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- Authors
- Pennington, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pennington, Nancy
- Venue
- Cognitive Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1987-07
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 295-341
- ISSN
- 0010-0285 (ISSN-L)
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- W2154671002
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- FWCI
- 32.83
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- journal article
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- en
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- Locations
- Cognitive Psychology (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Keywords
- program comprehension, mental representation, programming knowledge, control flow, functional relationships, goal hierarchy, expert programmers, task goals
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