NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 7 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news release:
Common methods of measuring how people understand programming code are being analyzed in a new way by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology, bringing a technique from social science into the world of computer science.
Their goals are to correct what they see as flawed approaches in the study of code comprehension and ultimately to teach programmers to write code that is more easily understood from the start.
"We did an extensive literature review, and we were surprised because we found out apparently the whole field of program comprehension, after more than 40 years of publishing papers and studying on this matter, apparently it's be...