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linearity of code reading: a standalone construct

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how closely programmers' eye movements follow the line-by-line order of code, shown to be less linear than reading prose.

In software engineering, linearity of code reading refers to how closely programmers' eye movements follow the line-by-line order of code, shown to be less linear than reading prose. This meaning comes from Busjahn (2015) in 2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Program Comprehension.[1]

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Busjahn, T., Bednarik, R., Begel, A., Crosby, M., Paterson, J. H., Schulte, C., Sharif, B., & Tamm, S. (2015). Eye Movements in Code Reading: Relaxing the Linear Order. 2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Program Comprehension. https://doi.org/10.1109/icpc.2015.36

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