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Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge

Program comprehension studies investigate the underlying cognitive processes of individuals as they perform programming tasks. Over the years, the studies have begin to incorporate devices such as eye-tracking to empirically analyze reading patterns and visual attention. The outcome of such studies...

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Main Authors: Ahsan, Zubair, Obaidellah, Unaizah Hanum
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2021
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
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spelling my.um.eprints.353942023-10-20T06:06:04Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/35394/ Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge Ahsan, Zubair Obaidellah, Unaizah Hanum QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Program comprehension studies investigate the underlying cognitive processes of individuals as they perform programming tasks. Over the years, the studies have begin to incorporate devices such as eye-tracking to empirically analyze reading patterns and visual attention. The outcome of such studies enables improved teaching instructions and learning procedures. This research aims to understand the comprehension strategies and the duration that individuals of varying performance take to attempt the programming questions. An experiment was conducted to collect data from 66 novice programmers' eye movements and their performance on algorithmic problems. The stimuli contained questions that the participants were familiar with having studied the same programs before the experiment was conducted to evaluate whether their prior knowledge influences their comprehension strategies. The results indicate that high performing students visit the problem statement more than the low performing students and yet spent less time on the problem statement as compared to the low performing students. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://crativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of KES International. 2021 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Ahsan, Zubair and Obaidellah, Unaizah Hanum (2021) Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge. In: 25th KES International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2021, 8 - 10 September 2021, Szczecin.
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
Ahsan, Zubair
Obaidellah, Unaizah Hanum
Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge
description Program comprehension studies investigate the underlying cognitive processes of individuals as they perform programming tasks. Over the years, the studies have begin to incorporate devices such as eye-tracking to empirically analyze reading patterns and visual attention. The outcome of such studies enables improved teaching instructions and learning procedures. This research aims to understand the comprehension strategies and the duration that individuals of varying performance take to attempt the programming questions. An experiment was conducted to collect data from 66 novice programmers' eye movements and their performance on algorithmic problems. The stimuli contained questions that the participants were familiar with having studied the same programs before the experiment was conducted to evaluate whether their prior knowledge influences their comprehension strategies. The results indicate that high performing students visit the problem statement more than the low performing students and yet spent less time on the problem statement as compared to the low performing students. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://crativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of KES International.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ahsan, Zubair
Obaidellah, Unaizah Hanum
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Obaidellah, Unaizah Hanum
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title Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge
title_short Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge
title_full Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge
title_fullStr Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge
title_full_unstemmed Visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge
title_sort visual behavior on problem comprehension among novice programmers with prior knowledge
publishDate 2021
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