| R. Tapp, R. Kazman. Determining the Usefulness of Colour and Fonts in a Programming Task. 3rd Workshop on Program Comprehension, November 14-15, 1994, Washington, D. C., IEEE Press, pp 154-161. |
....of the programming language used. Whilst this is a simple thing to do, it has been empirically shown that the use of indentation makes code reading easier. Arab [Arab92] and Miara et al. Miar83] document two such empirical studies of the use of indentation on program code. Tapp and Kazman [Tapp94] also carried out empirical studies, but to test the use of colour and font in aiding understanding (of program code) They found no conclusive evidence that either helped, although the subjects expressed a preference for displays using colour, and would use such displays again. The visualisation ....
R. Tapp, R. Kazman. Determining the Usefulness of Colour and Fonts in a Programming Task. 3rd Workshop on Program Comprehension, November 14-15, 1994, Washington, D. C., IEEE Press, pp 154-161.
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