Group A will be collaborators -- graduate students in CS specializing in software practices or human-computer interfaces.
Group B will be novice programmers -- undergraduate students in CS.
Group C will be experienced programmers -- professional code developers.
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Group A will have nine participants; Groups B and C will have six to ten participants each.
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Group A will have four participants; Groups B and C will have six to ten participants each.
For each study, I will observe two people from a given cohort pair-programming -- working (and talking) together -- using the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to perform three to five different (small) programming assignments on a large code base.