A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers

Lister, Raymond; Adams, Elizabeth; Fitzgerald, Sue; Fone, William; Hamer, John; Lindholm, Morten; McCartney, Robert; Erik Moström, Jan; Sanders, Kate; Seppälä, Otto; Simon, Beth; Thomas, Lynda

doi:10.1145/1041624.1041673

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A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers

Published in ACM SIGCSE Bulletin • Jun 28, 2004

Authors:

Raymond Lister

Elizabeth Adams

Sue Fitzgerald

Abstract

A study by a ITiCSE 2001 working group ("the McCracken Group") established that many students do not know how to program at the conclusion of their introductory courses. A popular explanation for this incapacity is that the students lack the ability to problem-solve. That is, they lack the ability t...

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GRASP

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Computer science

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