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Senior Programmers: Characteristics of Elderly Users from Stack Overflow

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In this paper we present results of research about elderly users of Stack Overflow (Question and Answer portal for programmers). They have different roles, different main activities and different habits. They are an important part of the community, as they tend to have higher reputation and they like to share their knowledge. This is a great example of possible way of keeping elderly people active and helpful for society.

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    http://stackoverflow.com.

  2. 2.

    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com.

  3. 3.

    https://data.stackexchange.com/.

  4. 4.

    http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015.

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    In the rest of the paper we use data from 2015 instead of 2016 as not all data are still available for the newest survey.

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    http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation.

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This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 690962.

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Kowalik, G., Nielek, R. (2016). Senior Programmers: Characteristics of Elderly Users from Stack Overflow. In: Spiro, E., Ahn, YY. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10047. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47874-6_7

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