An Analysis of Iterative and Recursive Problem Performance

Endres, Madeline; Weimer, Westley; Kamil, Amir

doi:10.1145/3408877.3432391

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“…Recently, many researchers use paid platforms or other hosted sampling services and found that many of the same challenges sampling and recruiting appropriate and relevant participants and screen question challenges [10], [11]. Additional recent work aims to shed light on addressing recruitment challenges surrounding sampling, participant screening, and using student software engineers as proxies for full-time software developers [12]- [15]. Finally, it is important to note prominent one example of recruitment tension, and ongoing discussion on recruitment practices between researchers and software developers, where researchers were using a third-party site GHTorrent to solicit names and emails of developers [16], [17].…”

Section: B Participant Recruitment In Software Engineering Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Under the Bridge: Trolling and the Challenges of Recruiting Software Developers for Empirical Research Studies

Kokinda¹,

Moster²,

Rodeghero³

2023

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Much of software engineering research focuses on tools, algorithms, and optimization of software. Recently, we, as a community, have come to acknowledge that there is a gap in meta-research and addressing the human-factors in software engineering research. Through meta research, we aim to deepen our understanding of online participant recruitment and human-subjects software engineering research. In this paper we motivate the need to consider the unique challenges that human studies pose in software engineering research. We present several challenges faced by our research team in several distinct research studies, how they affected research, and motivate how, as researchers, we can address these challenges. We present results from a pilot study and categorize issues faced into three broad categories including participant recruitment, community engagement, and data poisoning. We further discuss how we can address these challenges and outline the benefits a full-study could provide to the software engineering research community.

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Section: B Participant Recruitment In Software Engineering Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Under the Bridge: Trolling and the Challenges of Recruiting Software Developers for Empirical Research Studies

Kokinda¹,

Moster²,

Rodeghero³

2023

Preprint

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“…However, students still struggle with both concepts and instructors still find it difficult to teach these theories effectively. Endres et al(2021) surveyed that computer science educators identified recursion and loops as two of the most challenging areas to teach. While a recursive algorithm is one that calls itself to solve a given problem, an iterative algorithm uses a repeated set of instructions in order to solve the same problem.…”

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Evaluation, computation and coding of iterative function using recursive approach

Otu¹,

Oyebanji²,

Okonkwo³

et al. 2023

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Iteration and recursion are very pivotal concepts in understanding the logic and building blocks of all computer programs across all programming paradigms. Although the theory of iteration together with the development and implementation of iterative algorithm is easy to grasp, that of recursion remains elusive to programmers especially novice programmers. In this research, functions composition is applied in the explanation of iteration using recursion. The method demonstrates an easy and elaborate way of writing iterative programs using recursion by identifying the significant variables in both constructs. Function composition is used to write the recursive function, the recursive variable is identified as a variable that converges towards the base case, also the base case is also identified as being the terminating point of the function call else the function call runs and fill the stack memory causing stack overflow. The recursive part is the loop update and base case the termination condition in iterative programs. The results obtained simplifies how to write iterative codes using recursion.

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