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dc.contributor.authorKiper, Jamesen_US
dc.contributor.authorAuerheimer, Brenten_US
dc.contributor.authorAmes, Charlesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-22T19:31:26Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-10T15:06:39Z
dc.date.available2008-07-22T19:31:26Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-07-10T15:06:39Z
dc.date.issued1997-03-01en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-03-17en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/219en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports the results of two experiments investigating differences in comprehensibility of textual and graphical notations for representing decision statements. The first experiment was a replication of a prior experiment that found textual notations to be better than particular graphical notations. After replicating this study, two other hypotheses were investigated in a second experiment. Our first claim is that graphics may be better for technical, non-programmers than they are for programmers because of the great amount of experience that programmers have with textual notations in programming languages. The second is that modifications to graphical forms may improve their usefulness. The results support both of these hypotheses. Keywords: visual programming, decision structures, program comprehension, expert-novice differencesen_US
dc.titleVisual Depiction of Decision Statements: What is Best for Programmers and Non-programmersen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreReporten_US


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