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| Babak Khazaei, Michael Jackson, "Is There Any Difference in Novice Comprehension of a Small Program Written in the Event-Driven and Object-Oriented Styles?," Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, IEEE CS International Symposium on, pp. 19, IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02), 2002. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/HCC.2002.1046336, author = {Babak Khazaei and Michael Jackson}, title = {Is There Any Difference in Novice Comprehension of a Small Program Written in the Event-Driven and Object-Oriented Styles?}, journal ={Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, IEEE CS International Symposium on}, volume = {0}, year = {2002}, isbn = {0-7695-1644-0}, pages = {19}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HCC.2002.1046336}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, IEEE CS International Symposium on TI - Is There Any Difference in Novice Comprehension of a Small Program Written in the Event-Driven and Object-Oriented Styles? SN - 0-7695-1644-0 SP EP A1 - Babak Khazaei, A1 - Michael Jackson, PY - 2002 KW - Novice program comprehension KW - empirical study KW - event-driven and object oriented programming styles KW - mental model theory VL - 0 JA - Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, IEEE CS International Symposium on ER - | |||
We report on the conduct and the results of an experiment that investigates the program comprehension differences between event-driven and object-oriented programming styles.
A group of novice programmers were asked to comprehend two isomorphic programs and answered a series of five questions on each of the programs. Each question was to address one of five knowledge categories that together formed a complete mental representation of the two programs. Subjects performed badly on recalling the elementary operations knowledge in both styles. They performed very well in the data flow, control flow, function and state knowledge categories for both styles. Subjects were not significantly better in the last four categories indicating that the comprehension of event-driven and object oriented styles have a lot in common. A comparison of these results with the results of earlier studies, which compared procedural and object-oriented styles, indicates that procedural style is furthest away amongst the three styles. The results are discussed in terms of relevance to the theory of program comprehension.