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Wu, Quanfeng and Anderson, John R. (1993): Strategy Choice and Change in Programming. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 39 (4) pp. 579-598

“This research studied looping or iterative choice and change, especially between the "while-do" and "repeat-until" looping constructs in the PASCAL programming language. The empirical results from the first experiment, in which subjects were free to choose between the two looping alternatives, indicated that most PASCAL programmers are quite sensitive to the nature of the problems being solved and adaptable in choosing appropriate looping strategies. Another two experiments were performed in which subjects were either forced or induced to use one of the two looping strategies. These two experiments indicated that subjects are quite tenacious in using the appropriate strategy and their performance deteriorates when they are forced to use a different strategy.”

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Wu, Quanfeng and Anderson, John R. (1991): Strategy Selection and Change in PASCAL Programming. In: Koenemann-Belliveau, Jurgen, Moher, Thomas G. and Robertson, Scott P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers 1991, Norwood, New Jersey, USA. pp. 227-238.

“Three experiments were conducted to investigate iterative or looping strategy selection and change, especially between the "while-do" and the "repeat-until" looping constructs, in PASCAL programming. The results from the first experiment, in which subjects were free to choose between the two looping alternatives, indicated that most PASCAL programmers were quite sensitive to problem types and adaptable in choosing appropriate looping strategies. In other two experiments subjects were either forced or primed to use one of the two looping strategies. These experiments revealed that subjects were quite tenacious in using the appropriate strategy and their performance deteriorated when they were forced to use a different strategy. Finally, some implications of our findings to programming language designing and learning were explored.”

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