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Peer reviewedHarvey, Leon; Anderson, John – Human-Computer Interaction, 1996
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that subjects introduced to a first programming language develop a representation of basic programming concepts that help them integrate new declarative knowledge from a second programming language. The effect on reading was greater for pages that were conceptually close across texts and for subjects who had…
Descriptors: Information Processing, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Representation, Programmers
