This project will examine the ways software developers interact with each other through the source code they write. Specifically, we will study guidelines, some of which are in widespread use today and others that have failed to gain acceptance, that are intended to help make source code easier for other programmers to understand. Finally, by examining these practices in the broader context of human linguistics, we will develop improved techniques to facilitate this form of communication.

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Creator

• Kenyon, Ryan Michael
• Holt, Benjamin Joseph
• Goodrich, Alexander Robert

Subject

• Learning
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01D055I

Keyword

• Application software--Development

Advisor

• Gennert, Michael A.

Year

• 2001

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright