Zou, Lijie, Godfrey, Michael W.. Understanding interaction differences between newcomer and expert programmers. In RSSE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Recommendation systems for software engineering. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008. [doi]
Newcomer and expert programmers often interact with development artifacts differently. Ideally, software development tools should support these different styles of work. In this paper, we describe our investigations into the interaction difference between newcomers and experts, regarding two properties that characterize repetition of programmer interaction: temporal locality and interaction coupling recurrence. We describe our approach, research questions and planned methodology.