Tapping into tacit programming knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Elliot Soloway;Kate Ehrlich;Jeffrey Bonar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CHI '82 Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

The Cognition and Programming Group at Yale University is engaged in two complementary efforts: 1. exploring the programming process empirically, paying special attention to the knowledge and strategies which expert and non-experts employ, and 2. building computer-based environments which aid novices learning to program. In this extended abstract we will focus on the empirical strand of our research program; in particular, we will describe an experimental technique we have just begun to use to more carefully study what it is that expert and novice programmers do—and don't—know. In [19, 20, 22, 18, 7] we describe additional empirical studies, while [21] describes MENO-II, our intelligent programming tutor for Pascal.