Re: Intuitiveness of programming languages/paradigms

on with it at all). -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk

Re: validation of complexity metrics as measure for ease of comprehension?

/wiki/Cognitive_load -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk

Re: validation of complexity metrics as measure for ease of comprehension?

am I trying to obtain? Is the wood hidden by the trees (this is really a cost of extraction issue)? -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk

Re: models of creativity in programming

, as it is in most commercial projects. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391

Re: Overviews of the psychology of programming?

. Cognitive Psychology by Eysenck Keane is a good read. I attempted to provide an overview of cognitive issues applicable to programming in: www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/sent1.pdf I have done little reading on the social sciences side and cannot suggest any introductory books. -- Derek M. Jones

Fwd: Introducing Red-R: visual programming for R

...@public.gmane.org) -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity

Mozilla data visualization competition

All, This data visualization competition does not seem to be getting much publicity: http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/open-data/OpenDataCompetition.php -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk

Aggregator for ppig people blogs

of programming blog aggregator page could be added to the ppig site? -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated

Re: Aggregator for ppig people blogs

else? --Roman On 07/01/2011 04:26, Derek M Jones wrote: All, Various people working in the psychology of programming have blogs. It would be useful if there was an aggregator that made them all available in the same place. There is one for R: www.r-bloggers.com/ and the ACCU have one

Re: Redefining the word language

of the box when they obtain a conforming implementation. The definition of 'language' depends on who you are talking to. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis http

Re: Visual and text languages

All, There is a lot of scattered research on visual languages... some more The best book I know of on visual language is: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd

Re: Experiment idea?

about Test-Driven Development, compared to regular development, but I don't know how to test that. Can anyone suggest an experiment I could run with a couple of groups that help to shed light on the subject? Sounds too complicated to run in this environment. -- Derek M. Jones

Re: Experiment idea?

the experiments could be run on these. The screen size would limit things a bit. An interesting project for somebody this summer :-) -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk Source code analysis

Re: studies of source code line purposes?

addressing this issue, roles of variables: http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~saja/var_roles/ -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysishttp://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University

Making empirical data+code available

will reply with where their own data can be downloaded. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysishttp://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC

Re: Making empirical data code available

this in some way if people wish to use it. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysishttp://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391

Re: Making empirical data+code available

your career: .RS .IP i) 75,000 .IP ii) 100,000 .IP iii) 150,000 .IP iv) 200,000 .IP v) 300,000 .IP vi) 500,000 .IP vii) 800,000+ -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysis

Re: Making empirical data code available

%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0026828 -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysishttp://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391

Re: studies of naming?

get a phonetic transcription of that: http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2012/03/16/generating-sounds-like-and-accented-words/ -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysis

Re: studies of naming?

that work. Also one thing about analyzing code is that you quickly learn that what developers say they do and what they actually do often have little in common. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com

Re: Corpus of Java source code with JUnit

. I want to test a new programming construct that is supposed to shorten programs without making them harder to understand. In the first instance How do you plan to measure understanding? -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape

Re: Corpus of Java source code with JUnit

, or the programmer did not understand the language construct, ... -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysishttp://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated

Re: Electronic copies of spreadsheets already seeded with errors

to a corpus that has such kind of spreadsheets, I would greatly appreciate if they can assist me on the same. Thanks in advance, Bennett -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysis

Re: longitudinal studies of the development of programming expertise

for download? -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Software analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity

Re: emotions and programming

activities (at least for the people who are good at it). -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Software analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC

Empirical data wanted

experimental work + and data here: www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment.html -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Software analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal

Re: Forty Years of Research on Personality in Software Engineering: A Mapping Study

Department of Electrical Computer Engineering Thompson Engineering Building (TEB 345) London, Ontario, Canada - N6A5B9 http://www.eng.uwo.ca/people/lcapretz/ Tel. 1 519 6612111 x85482 tel:1%20519%206612111%20x85482, Fax 1 519 8502436 tel:1%20519%208502436 -- Derek M

Re: What human factors influence programming errors?

comments and advice are welcomed. Best regards, Fuqun Huang, Ph.D. The Ohio State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scott Laboratory W 382 Columbus, Ohio, USA -- Derek M. Jones Software analysis tel: +44 (0)1252 520667 blog:shape-of-code.coding

Re: What human factors influence programming errors?

Implications by John Anderson Best, Huw On 9 February 2015 at 15:22, Derek M Jones de...@knosof.co.uk wrote: Huw, Dear Huang, This quote suggests that you are considering personality as orthogonal to cognition. Is this so, and, if so, what is to be gained by doing so, please? The general