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Ackerman, D.; Stelovsky, J. |
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The Role of Mental Models in Programming: From Experience to Requirements for an interactive System |
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1986 |
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Visualization in Programming |
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XS-2, ETHZ, Wirth, PRIMP-1, cognitive comlexity, visual programming, |
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Ackerman perceives the act of programming as a mapping from from the intended actions of a programmer to into operations provided by a programming system -> action-operation mapping. To improve programming perfomance a system should reduce working memory load of the programmer by supplying choices explicitely. More generaly the XS-2 approach is viewed as a good one: 1) where did I come from. 2) where am I now 3) where can I go. Ackerman's work describes the coceptualizations made by individual programmers; abstraction, generalization. He then suggest to account for these differences by providing user-tailorable components to keep up motivation and efficiency of programmers. Experience with the XS-2 system revealed that a system can be too explicit. Lesson show context but make the amount of context user-tailorable. |
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Gorny, P.; Tauber, T.J. |
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CU course ECEN5003, Spring 91 |
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