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pith:I6J5LKCV

pith:2017:I6J5LKCVITI2CRQ2QZQLQ25TSH

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What Is the Best Way For Developers to Learn New Software Tools? An Empirical Comparison Between a Text and a Video Tutorial

Daniel Kulesz (Institute for Software Technology, Germany), Stefan Wagner (University of Stuttgart, University of Stuttgart, Verena K\"afer (Universit\"at Stuttgart

arxiv:1704.00074 v1 · 2017-03-31 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{I6J5LKCVITI2CRQ2QZQLQ25TSH}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:47:25.504662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4793d5a85544d1a1461a8660b86bb391c1db0dd3aecfa7ade1166640d8729545

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.00074 · arxiv_version: 1704.00074v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.00074 · pith_short_12: I6J5LKCVITI2 · pith_short_16: I6J5LKCVITI2CRQ2 · pith_short_8: I6J5LKCV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I6J5LKCVITI2CRQ2QZQLQ25TSH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4793d5a85544d1a1461a8660b86bb391c1db0dd3aecfa7ade1166640d8729545

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0728b7f70be1897b19d88801ed54849147e0fc3a965428e0c6316330986d1a64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-31T22:24:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a22d9af04ac8628612d4e47a46969aff3d2a7e7e78ca9860e93fe448b47f6a1"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1704.00074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}