Information foraging theory

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Example-centric programming: integrating web search into the development environment (2010, background): “The increased prevalence of online source code—shared in code repositories, documentation, blogs and forums [1, 2, 6, 9, 23]—enables programmers to opportunistically build applications by iteratively searching for, modifying, and combining examples [5, 8, 15].”
Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm (2009, background): “Although we are informa vores (Miller, 1983; i.e., a species that hungers for information in order to gather it to adapt to our world; Pirolli, 2008), only a small amount of the information we encounter is actually relevant to our current activity.”
Two studies of opportunistic programming: interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code (2009, background): “” This assessing behavior is consistent with information scent theory, in that users decide which Web pages to explore by evaluating their surface-level features [28].”