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The Psychological Study of Programming

Sheil, B. A.·1981·ACM Computing Surveys
DOI 10.1145/356835.356840
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Authors
Sheil, B. A.
Venue
ACM Computing Surveys
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
1981-03
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
101-120
ISSN
  • 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7341
DOI
10.1145/356835.356840
OpenAlex
W131015021
Cited by
239
References
1
FWCI
33.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
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