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The growth of the web has fundamentally changed the way software is built. Vast increase in information resources and the democratization of access and distribution are main factors in the development of Example-Centric Programming for [[End-user development]]. Tutorials are available on the web in seconds thus broadening the space of who writes it: designers, scientists, or hobbyists. Prevalence of online code repositories, documentation, blogs and forums—enables programmers to build applications iteratively searching for, modifying, and combining examples.
Scaffidi 2005: By 2012 13 million program as a part of their job, yet only three million of those are actual professional programmers.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Scaffidi|first1=Christopher|last2=Brandt|first2=Joel|last3=Burnett|first3=Margaret|last4=Dove|first4=Andrew|last5=Myers|first5=Brad|title=SIG: end-user programming|journal=CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems|date=2012|pages=1193–1996|doi=10.1145/2212776.2212421|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2212776.2212421&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=597181533&CFTOKEN=26959364}}</ref>
There are three intentions behind code based web searches: "Learning" (just in time learning), "clarification" which is connecting existing knowledge to implementation of details, and "reminder" which is the offloading memory to external resources. Reminder is often what causes breaks in workflow. Learning involves little to no prior knowledge and consists of mostly English, where copy and paste is the method of task completion. Clarification is a mix of computer code and the English language-it is immediately understood translations of code, or language analogies.
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