Check out WTD Episode 25: Researching how developers use API docs, with Andrew Head by . Here is an excerpt:
In episode 25, we talk with Andrew Head, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, about his research on how developers use API documentation. Specifically, we focused on a recent article he co-authored titled When Not to Comment: Questions and Tradeoffs with API Documentation for C++…
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