What is the best way for developers to learn new software tools? A small empirical comparison between a text and a video tutorial

Institute of Software Technology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2413v2
Subject Areas
Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering
Keywords
comparison, text tutorial, software, spreadsheet, video tutorial, comnparison
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© 2016 Käfer et al.
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Käfer V, Kulesz D, Wagner S. 2016. What is the best way for developers to learn new software tools? A small empirical comparison between a text and a video tutorial. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2413v2

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The paper was rejected for a conference. The new version is the improved version.