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Quote: the most readable program was procedureless with comments, the least was procedureless without comments (73 lines of code)

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programming style
Topic:
experimental results on programming

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Both extremes in readability occurred in the program … is the most readable, while the procedureless program … is the least readable. … The main effect of comments is significant at … The effect of procedure format is not statistically … [Notes: 1) procedureless, commentless program was 73 lines of PL/1. 2) high correlation between student's GPA and number of correct answers]   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: found a high correlation between student's GPA and the ability to read short (73 line) programs

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