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Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm 
01 Jan 2019
16 Citations
The rationale is that happy developers should be more productive and also retained.
The data reveals a step-function-like contour to programmer productivity with increasing program control complexity.
Interestingly, this tendency appears stronger with more productive developers.
We obtained empirical evidence that pair programming decreases the effort of the single programmer.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
24 May 1998
5 Citations
We postulate that there is such a thing as average programmer productivity, in a given context.
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Lester Hadsell, Gerald T Burke 
9 Citations
We show how the model can be used to identify whether computers are productive tools and whether students will learn more when using computers.
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Frank Mueller, Antony L. Hosking 
27 Oct 2003
27 Citations
As such, it has grown to include a large degree of functionality that may be overwhelming to the novice programmer.
I show that even though direct instruction can be conceived as a productive success compared to discovery learning, theoretical and empirical analyses suggests that it may well be an unproductive success compared with examples of productive failure and productive success.