Hi, here are some other interesting articles. The first one has a nice table with frequent bugs at the end. The second one summarizes various studies.
* An Analysis of the Errors Made by Novice Programmers http://www.sacla.org.za/SACLA2006/Papers/RP01%20Pillay%20Programming%20Errors.pdf * An Exploratory Study of Novice Programming Experiences and Errors http://gild.cs.uvic.ca/docs/summary/SuzanneThompsonThesis.pdf * Studying the language and structure in non-programmers' solutions to programming problems http://web.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/ftp/PaneRatanamahatanaMyers2001.pdf You might also want to take a look at the Natural Programming Project: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/ They have lots of interesting papers. * A development study of cognitive problems in learning to program http://www.ppig.org/papers/15th-tucker.pdf * Cognitive strategies and looping constructs: an empirical study http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/david-jones/Teaching/Innovation/Lit_Review/p853-soloway.pdf * Visualizing Roles of Variables to Novice Programmers http://www.ppig.org/papers/14th-sajaniemi.pdf * The Roles Beacons Play in Comprehension for Novice and Expert Programmers http://www.ppig.org/papers/14th-crosby.pdf * From Procedures to Objects: What Have We (Not) Done? http://www.ppig.org/papers/19th-Sajaniemi.pdf ---------- I think we'll have to summarize all articles (if they aren't already summaries) to have a "practitioner's takeaway" for this project. I could really need some help here. This topic is overwhelmingly large. If somebody is interested, I've looked through the PL learning/novice articles PPIG 2007-2000 (http://www.ppig.org), so you don't need to duplicate this effort (unless you find something I overlooked ;). John Pane seems to have other interesting papers: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/publications.html The Natural Language Project has more publications: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/publications.html Then, there's a site collecting articles about visual PLs: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/vpl.html So, please help with summarizing and suggesting interesting articles. Bye, Waldemar Kornewald _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
