Nischal Shrestha
Transfer Issues in Software Engineering
Hi, I'm Nischal. I'm interested in applying HCI research to build new techniques and tools to help software engineers become more productive. Specifically, I do research in learning transfer for programming languages, investigating new techniques and tools that can help programmers learn second and subsequent languages effectively and efficiently. I work in the alt-code lab at NC State University and I am advised by Dr. Chris Parnin.
Conference papers
Exploring Tools and Strategies Used During Regular Expression Composition Tasks [pdf]
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2019
We conduct an exploratory case study to reveal the tools and strategies developers use during regular expression composition.
It's Like Python But: Towards Supporting Transfer of Programming Language Knowledge [pdf]
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human-Centric Computing, 2018
We explore a tool to support learning new programming languages, given experience in one or more languages.
Doctorate consortium papers
Towards Supporting Knowledge Transfer of Programming Language Knowledge [pdf]
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human-Centric Computing, 2018
I outline the current research on learning transfer for programming languages and provide first steps for better transfer support.