Hi all,
I'm currently studying honours at Monash, and completing a project covering various aspects of beginner programming and common mistakes. I have been looking for literature on translating medium->high level programming languages to natural language, and also on classifying semantic errors. I currently haven't found that much on classifying semantic errors that would be more suitable for 'auto-detection' of common beginner mistakes, however, many that are helpful for understanding why such errors occur and teaching methods that focus on dealing with such errors. I have found a couple of papers that mention debugging environments that can highlight possible errors, but didn't detail the methods used, or any hints how it was decided that it was an error. I have also found some papers specifically dealing with representing difficult concepts in a more detailed language representationg (loops and some on boolean logic), but not many papers. Many papers I have read have been focussed on good language design and most agree that the more 'natural a language' the easier it is to learn for most students. I would dearly appreciate any help anyone could give in suggesting papers to read. Thanks heaps, Kym ------------------------------------------------------------ Kymberly Fergusson Monash University Associate Lecturer/Honours Student room 131/26 www.csse.monash.edu.au/~kef - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe discuss To join the announcements list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe announce To receive a help file, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] help This list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ If you have any problems or questions, please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
