A fine-grained assessment on novice programmers' gaze patterns on pseudocode problems

• Main Authors: Obaidellah, Unaizah Hanum, Blascheck, Tanja, Guarnera, Drew T., Maletic, Jonathan I.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY 2020
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/37134/; https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3379156.3391982

To better understand code comprehension and problem solving strategies, we conducted an eye tracking study that includes 51 undergraduate computer science students solving six pseudocode program comprehension tasks. Each task required students to order a sequence of pseudocode statements necessary t...