Non-programmers identifying functionality in unfamiliar code: Strategies and barriers

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments

• Publication date

  2009-09-20

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295294
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