Expert Programming Knowledge: a Schema-Based Approach

The topic of this chapter is the role of expert programming knowledge in comprehension. In the ‘schema-based approach’, the role of semantic structures is emphasized whereas, in the ‘control-flow approach’, the role of syntactic structures is emphasized. Data that support schema-based models of understanding are presented. Data that are more consistent with the ‘control-flow approach’ suggest limitations of the former kind of models.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  arXiv.org

• Publication date

  2007-02-01

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1016/B978-0-12-350772-3.50018-5arXiv cs/0702003
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