S.Lin
I am trying to conduct a literature review of programmer cognition. However, it seems hard to find many relevant literatures, e.g.(I got some of them from previous post in this group, thanks!):
You are right, there is very little relevant literature.
Also, can anyone also recommend any research method papers/books of how to study programmers' cognition?
I guess the psychology of programming might be defined as the application of human psychology to programming related problems. You question related to the subtopic of human cognition, which is my own interest. We could take the cognition of programming as the application of human cognition to programming related problems. So the most important thing is to first have some understanding of human cognition. Good introductory books are "Human Cognition" by Eysenck and "Cognitive psychology and its implications" by Anderson. How to study programmer cognition. I guess you have to isolate the part of cognition you want to study (from factors that might interfere) using some suitably designed experiment and hopefully get some results that backup your theory. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
