On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Derek M Jones wrote:
In any experiment it is necessary to restrict the attributes
that could change the experimental results to just those of
interest. The larger the amount of source used the larger
the likelihood that more uncontrolled attributes will occur.
In
Richard,
Thank you, but I am not sure that readability of short snippets
is the same thing as readability of "connected passages", and I'm
pretty sure that readability of 2-page programs is not the same
as readability of million-line programs.
In any experiment it is necessary to restrict the
Hi Richard
Here are some detailed remarks about technique that you just might
find useful. If it's grandmother and egg time, please accept my
apologies.
1) Given your hypothesis, I don't think you need to use huge programs.
If you get a significant result from something N lines long, you
On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Alan Blackwell wrote:
Hi Richard,
A couple of clarifications - your primary experimental
manipulation is 'style', is that right? Could you explain what
this means?
I thought I already said explicitly that it was about
whether to use
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On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:06 AM, Clendon Gibson wrote:
I am not sure how to test comprehension because it will be difficult
to disentangle individual student skill from the how readable the
programs are. It will depend on a number of factors like
comprehension of the concepts involved. So for i
On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Derek M Jones wrote:
I wrote about an interesting readability experiment here:
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2009/01/20/readability-an-experimental-view/
Thank you, but I am not sure that readability of short snippets
is the same thing as readability
Richard,
I want to run a small readability experiment this semester
as a class exercise. I've done a lot of web searching looking
for guidelines, but not found anything really helpful.
I wrote about an interesting readability experiment here:
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2009/01/
Hi Richard,
A couple of clarifications - your primary experimental
manipulation is 'style', is that right? Could you explain what
this means?
And do you have a hypothesis, regarding the impact of 'style' on
your measures? (and the expected interaction of age/experience
with style).
With luck, we
, July 15, 2010 1:40:18 AM
Subject: How to do a small readability experiment?
I want to run a small readability experiment this semester
as a class exercise. I've done a lot of web searching looking
for guidelines, but not found anything really helpful.
My idea is
- 3 programs, about
I want to run a small readability experiment this semester
as a class exercise. I've done a lot of web searching looking
for guidelines, but not found anything really helpful.
My idea is
- 3 programs, about 2 pages each
- 3 styles
- Latin square
- record reading ti
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