An Empirical Analysis of Roles of Variables in Novice-Level Procedural Programs

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IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02)

Arlington, Virginia, USA

September 03-September 06

ISBN: 0-7695-1644-0

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	Jorma Sajaniemi, "An Empirical Analysis of Roles of Variables in Novice-Level Procedural Programs," Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, IEEE CS International Symposium on, pp. 37, IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02), 2002.

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	@article{ 10.1109/HCC.2002.1046340, author = {Jorma Sajaniemi}, title = {An Empirical Analysis of Roles of Variables in Novice-Level Procedural Programs}, journal ={Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, IEEE CS International Symposium on}, volume = {0}, year = {2002}, isbn = {0-7695-1644-0}, pages = {37}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HCC.2002.1046340}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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Jorma Sajaniemi, University of Joensuu

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HCC.2002.1046340

The use of all variables in 109 novice-level, but expert-written, procedural programs were analyzed in order to find a small but still comprehensive set of generic roles that describe the nature of the successive values a variable obtains. This paper gives the results of the analysis: a list of only nine roles that cover 99 % of variables, frequencies of the roles, and discovered role changes.

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Jorma Sajaniemi, "An Empirical Analysis of Roles of Variables in Novice-Level Procedural Programs," hcc, pp.37, IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02), 2002

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