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SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
/*icomment: bugs or bad comments?*/
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Gopal Krishna, Yuanyuan Zhou
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Debugging: the good, the bad, and the quirky -- a qualitative analysis of novices' strategies
A qualitative analysis of debugging strategies of novice Java programmers is presented. The study involved 21 CS2 students from seven universities in the U.S. and U.K. Subjects &q...
Laurie Murphy, Gary Lewandowski, Renée McCa...