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Ducky's Homework / Research
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- Visual Studio
- BlueJ -- teaching tool; not sure if it scales
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- Rob's thesis mentions that 58-81% of web navigation is to previously seen pages, but passes on saying what % is for source. That would be interesting to try to pull out of Mylar data. (Did I finish his thesis?)
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- Find out what plug-ins the various IDEs have -- code coverage? findbugs? JUnit?
- Rob's thesis mentions that 58-81% of web navigation is to previously seen pages [Dumais et al], but passes on saying what % is for source. That would be interesting to try to pull out of Mylar data.
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- Bannon et al: "[D]igressions are frequent. When a record is made of these commands as they occur temporarily, as in the history list, information on the tasks and goals of the users is lost."
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- H3.3: marking "special" places in the history drop-down with icons
- classes/methods reached via a search
- classes/methods reached via the package explorer
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- classes/methods reached via
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- (Question: what about reached from Outline View? Class Hierarchy view? QuickOutline)
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- H3.4: telling people that BFN is a better approach
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- H3.4: making search results visually distinctive if they have gone there recently
- H3.5: telling people that BFN is a better approach
- (H3.6: telling people to write down three hypotheses)
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