Visual process models are meant to facilitate comprehension of business processes.
However, in practice, process models can be difficult to understand. The main goal of this …

In the past decade, brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement received
increasing attention in the study of software engineering (SE). This paper presents a …

Coding as a Playground, Second Edition focuses on how young children (aged 7 and
under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to become computer …

Computer programming is an essential skill in the 21st century and new policies and
frameworks aim at preparing students for computer science-related professions. Today, the …

Every programmer has a characteristic style, ranging from preferences about identifier
naming to preferences about object relationships and design patterns. Coding conventions …

Code reading is an important skill in programming. Inspired by the linearity that people
exhibit while natural language text reading, we designed local and global gaze-based …

Software developers working on change tasks commonly experience a broad range of
emotions, ranging from happiness all the way to frustration and anger. Research, primarily in …

Computer programming is a novel cognitive tool that has transformed modern society. What
cognitive and neural mechanisms support this skill? Here, we used functional magnetic …

Most modern software programs cannot be understood in their entirety by a single
programmer. Instead, programmers must rely on a set of cognitive processes that aid in …

Background: Researchers and practitioners have been using code complexity metrics for
decades to predict how developers comprehend a program. While it is plausible and …