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Study of novice programmers using Eclipse and Gild

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Peter C. Rigby,

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eclipse '05: Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange

Pages 105 - 109

https://doi.org/10.1145/1117696.1117718

Published: 16 October 2005 Publication History

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In this paper we discuss a pilot user study that compares the use of two integrated development environments (IDEs), Eclipse and Gild, by novice programmers. Gild is a perspective for Eclipse that is intended to be more suitable for first-year students who are learning how to program in Java. This study focuses on qualitative and quantitative measures; the quantitative measures include: efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction and understanding. Two statistically significant results are obtained from the satisfaction measure, in particular: the frustration level and the overall level of satisfaction. The mean differences for the remaining measures indicate that Gild was more suitable for novices than Eclipse. Qualitative analysis yields suggestions for improvement for both interfaces and also identifies areas of success.

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eclipse '05: Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange

October 2005

141 pages

ISBN:1595933425

DOI:10.1145/1117696

Conference Chairs:
Margaret-Anne Storey
University of Victoria
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Michael G. Burke
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
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Li-Te Cheng
IBM Research, Cambridge
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André van der Hoek
University of California, Irvine

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