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Tutorial Documentation for Software Developers: Evaluating the Impact of a Supporting Technology Documentation on Learning New Technology.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Tutorial Documentation for Software Developers: Evaluating the Impact of a Supporting Technology Documentation on Learning New Technology./
作者:	Jordan, Greg.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
面頁冊數:	90 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-11B.
標題:	Technical communication. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29065266
ISBN:	9798426825222

Tutorial Documentation for Software Developers: Evaluating the Impact of a Supporting Technology Documentation on Learning New Technology.
Jordan, Greg.

Tutorial Documentation for Software Developers: Evaluating the Impact of a Supporting Technology Documentation on Learning New Technology. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 90 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Memphis, 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Software has become central to every part of modern life and supports everything from managing personal schedules to managing global supply chain systems. In creating new or updating existing software, software developers often need to incorporate new technology. When software developers learn new technology using tutorials, their experience with secondary technologies-the technologies that accompany or complement the new technology-can have an impact on the comprehension of the new technology being covered. Based on this understanding, I designed a mixed methods study focused on a group of software developers learning a new technology to examine the following questions:1. Does prior knowledge of a supporting technology affect learning a new technology?2: Does providing external code examples of a secondary, supporting technology in a tutorial help make learning a new technology more effective?Nine participants were drawn from the researcher's professional network of programmers, each of whom reported at least some Java programming experience (secondary technology) but lacked experience with the primary technology being introduced. During individual, remote usability sessions, each participant read a tutorial and completed tasks based on the tutorial. The study's data was the result of the usability sessions, surveys, and feedback after each session.The sample size for this study resulted in rich data collected from sessions was used to discover if problems existed with the tutorial's approach, as well as to help. Overall, the analysis supports the limited prior research in that participants experienced no significant usability problems with the tutorial's design approach, which accounted for learners' knowledge of a secondary program language, Java, by providing Java code examples in the tutorial. It also suggests that this approach did not introduce problems based on prior experience with the supporting technology. However, a larger sample group in a longer-term study should be conducted to expand the range and types of data being collected and analyzed as well as provide statistical validity. In addition, new survey questions could further quantify and classify "prior knowledge of the supporting technology" as well as open comparisons with participants who do not have prior experience the supporting technology to those who have experience.

ISBN: 9798426825222Subjects--Topical Terms:

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