Abstract
The techniques of cognitive psychological experimentation can help resolve specific issues in programming and explore the broader issues of programmer behavior. This paper describes the methodological questions of such experimentation and presents two exploratory experiments: a memorization task and a comparison of the arithmetic and logical IF statements infortran.
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Shneiderman, B. Exploratory experiments in programmer behavior. International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 5, 123–143 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975629
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