Re: PPIG discuss: Representation of mental models

2007-06-11 Thread Bjorn Reese
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> I know this is a rather misunderstood area, but I wonder if anyone has
> looked into external representations (diagrammatic) of programmers'
> mental models of source code? I have carried out map completion
> exercises with hypertext environments, and although these may not be a
> true representation of mental models (what is one anyway?), there may be
> some arguement that they are not entirely unrelated. I wonder if
> something similar has been carried out in the area program comprehension.

You can find some in:

  von Mayrhauser & Vans, "Program Understanding - A Survey", Technical
  Report CS-94-120, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State
  University, 1994.

  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/47610.html
 
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RE: PPIG discuss: Representation of mental models

2007-06-11 Thread Chris.Exton
Hi Sue,
Try taking a look at Gale Murphy's reflextion models
 
http://www.citeulike.org/user/ivica/article/901208
 
P.S.
Jim Buckley is presenting a paper relating to reflextion models at this years 
PPIG if you are attending.
 
Regards
Chris 



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Hello,

I know this is a rather misunderstood area, but I wonder if anyone has
looked into external representations (diagrammatic) of programmers' mental
models of source code? I have carried out map completion exercises with
hypertext environments, and although these may not be a true representation
of mental models (what is one anyway?), there may be some arguement that
they are not entirely unrelated. I wonder if something similar has been
carried out in the area program comprehension.

Thanks,

Sue


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