© 1987 by British Computer Society
Programmer Experience-Level Indicators
Department of Computer Science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK
If we interpret teaching as a process of controlled learning it is tempting to try to mechanise the teaching of programming as a feedback control process. One major difficulty is the identification of program measures that indicate student experience which can be automatically collected. Based on a static empirical analysis of student Pascal programs, we detail those measures that we have found to be affected by programmer experience. We also give the general results of the empirical analysis which are of interest to other researchers.
Received October 1985. revised July 1986.
* Department of Computer Science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH