Multilingual investigation of theory-based intervention for program comprehension

Abstract

This thesis is the continuation of an experiment called “Eye-movement Modeling Examples in Source Code Comprehension: A Classroom Study”. This first experiment studies how effective is showing novice programmers how experts read code with a video with the expert’s gaze guided by a verbal explanation. Therefore, this thesis studies, using a similar experiment, whether only verbal explanation and visual stimuli without the expert’s gaze could be also helpful for the programming novices.