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Ricardo Hidalgo Aragón

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Calle Tulipán, s/n

Madrid, Móstoles 28230

Spain

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

3

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75

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0

Scholarly Papers (3)

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How Do Code Smells Affect Skill Growth in Scratch Novice Programmers?

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 08 Aug 2025
Ricardo Hidalgo Aragón, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Rey Juan Carlos University and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Bad Smells, Code Smells, Computational Thinking, Software Maintenance, Software Evolution, Block-Based Programming (Scratch), Novice Programmers

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Can we Disentangle Size from Quality to Better Understand Software Maintenance & Evolution? A Study with 2M Scratch Projects

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 22 Jul 2026
Ricardo Hidalgo Aragón and Gregorio Robles
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Software Quality, Maintenance, Evolution, Mining Software Repositories, Disentangled Representations, Variational Autoencoders, Size Confound, Code Smells, Computational Thinking, Scratch

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Can we Disentangle Size from Quality to better understand Software Maintenance & Evolution? A Study with 2M Scratch Projects

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Jul 2026
Ricardo Hidalgo Aragón and Gregorio Robles
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Software Quality, Maintenance, Evolution, Mining Software Repositories, Disentangled Representations, Variational Autoencoders, Size Confound, Code Smells, Computational Thinking, Scratch