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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2007
ACM
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
TOOLS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Access modifiers like public and private let the programmer control the accessibility of class members. Restricted accessibility supports encapsulation, i.e., the hiding of impleme...
ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE-ACM
The principle of separation of concerns has long been used by software engineers to manage the complexity of software system development. Programming languages help software engin...
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
Programming forums are becoming the primary tools for programmers to find answers for their programming problems. Our empirical study of popular programming forums shows that the...