just activate google with for example "program understanding" and a lot of material will show up.
best regards, gerold Brian de Alwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 05.12.2003, 01:01:28: > Hello everybody. > > I'm a PhD student studying with Gail Murphy at the University of > British Columbia. I'm looking into alleviating the loss of context > experienced by programmers during development. I'm focussing > specifically on expert programmers dealing with large systems, such > as Eclipse. By loss of context, I mean that they `get lost', > forgetting what they were doing. It seems similar to the `lost in > hyperspace' problem experienced in hypertext, and there are elements > of information overload as well. > > This loss of context seems to happen for two reasons: they forget > what they are doing while browsing and understanding the code > (perhaps due to information overload), or are distracted from their > original task and unable to remember what they were doing (digression). > > I hoped for pointers to known related work (I haven't found any), > or to similar situations. I think I have a pretty good handle on > the hypertext problem, and I've found some material about affordances > and browsing/navigating of electronic text. > > Thanks! > > Brian. > > -- > Brian de Alwis | Graduate student | Software Practices Lab | UBC > "Passivity & cynicism have always come easily to the educated." - Ed Broadbent > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss > Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce > PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
