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Some specific resources for the interested: - Cognitive Dimensions of Notations (Green 1989) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.128.270&r

• azhenley 8y ago
  All great examples! Here are some other great researchers/groups that do research in this area: - Brad Myer's Natural Programming Project at CMU (tons of novel tools!): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/index.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/index.html - Andy Ko's work on debugging and learning to code: http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/publications http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/publications - Emerson Murphy-Hill's work on the usability of dev tools, especially refactoring tools: https://people.engr.ncsu.edu/ermurph3/pubs.html https://people.engr.ncsu.edu/ermurph3/pubs.html - Chris Parnin's studies on the cognitive aspects of coding: http://chrisparnin.me/ http://chrisparnin.me/ - Chrsitian Bird's empirical studies of developers: http://www.cabird.com/wp/publications/ http://www.cabird.com/wp/publications/ - Thomas LaToza's work on the collaborative aspects of development: https://cs.gmu.edu/~tlatoza/papers.html https://cs.gmu.edu/~tlatoza/papers.html - Bjorn Hartmann's help support in code editors and tutorial generation: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bjoern/ https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bjoern/ - Philip Guo's tools to support novices with coding: http://www.pgbovine.net/publications.htm http://www.pgbovine.net/publications.htm - My dissertation "Human-Centric Tools for Navigating Code": http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/publications.html http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/publications.html - Margaret Burnett's work on how people forage for information in code: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/reprints.html http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/reprints.html