Context: Empirical studies with human participants (eg, controlled experiments) are
established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers' …

Students are able to produce correctly functioning program code even though they have a
fragile understanding of how it actually works. Questions derived automatically from …

A role-based teaching approach was proposed in order to decrease the cognitive load
placed by the case-based teaching method in the undergraduate novice programmer …

Research on mental representations formed by programmers during program
comprehension has not yet been applied to parallel programming. The goals of the pilot …

At the beginning of their undergraduate studies, computer science students are exposed to
introductory programming, discrete mathematics, and algorithms. A large body of literature …

Open-source programs have gained popularity due to their decentralized, quick
development cycles and accessibility to everyone. Program understanding is vital for open …

This paper reviews on literature focusing to programming teaching and learning by
addressing issues and challenges in context of introductory programming at tertiary level …

Introduction. The comprehension of computer programs is claimed to be a decisive faculty
and even skill of any successful exercising professional duties of program engineers, for …

Each software problem has its own needs and requirements. These needs can be satisfied
by one of many programming paradigms, which in turn can be realized by one of many …

Empirical studies in software engineering are often conducted with open-source developers
or in industrial collaborations. This has resulted in few experiments using financial …