overall schedule

semester 2019 - winter

• write proposal
• read the closely related literature
• catch up on literary studies

semester 2020 - summer

• gather all aesthetic judgments about code
• read about questions of clarity, simplicity, elegance
• • in both CS texts
• • and in literary texts
• establish feature set (list of adjectives with thorough definitions)

semester 2020 - winter

• read about understanding (human-human)
• read about understanding (human-machine)
• relate feature set to understanding

semester 2021 - summer

• read about programming languages
• relate feature set to each language

semester 2021 - winter

• case studies
• conclusions and re-conceptualizing in light of findings
• write

semester 2022 - summer

• write