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Scientific study on code readability – Looking for participants

5 pointsby cessorabout 10 years ago
The Department of Psychology of Heidelberg University, Germany, is conducting an experiment on the psychology of programming.<p>We are researching how programmers read source code. At the moment we&#x27;re running a pretest for the main study for which we need the support of programmers who are fluent in C#.<p>If you&#x27;re a C# programmer and would like to help science, please follow the link below. Your task will be to find a bug in a piece of C# source code. The pretest will take approximately 20 Minutes.<p>We are very interested in your comments, so that we can further improve the design and the software used to collect data. Your input would be much appreciated, so that the final experiment can be further improved.<p>It is the first step of a larger project on the psychology of programming that will include experimental studies, eye-tracking, and electro-encephalography (EEG) studies. If you are interested in finding out more about this project, please contact me. You&#x27;ll find my contact details on the provided website.<p>To participate, please visit the following url:<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de<p>Regards,<p>Johannes Hofmeister

2 comments

andypalmerabout 10 years ago
Well, that was fun. It took a lot less than 20 minutes though
horstschneiderabout 10 years ago
not sure I got that second thing right :D
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