CS6/79995 Special Topics:
Program Comprehension &
The Psychology of Programming

Department of Computer Science

Kent State University
Spring 2008

Dr. Jonathan I. Maletic

The course focuses on the research issues of program comprehension and the psychology of how people understand and write software.  The objective of this course is to investigate the material on the cognitive and mental models of how people 1) learn to program, 2) understand existing large programs.  This material forms the basis for educational methods in introductory programming course.  Additionally, it forms the basis of the software environments that are being constructed to assist software engineers to build, maintain, and evolve software systems.

Time: MW 11:00pm - 12:15pm
Place:  276 MSB


URL: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/Prog-Comp/
Last Updated: 03/04/2008