Hi Linda and all, My masters thesis "An Exploration of the Effects of Enhanced Compiler Error Messages for Computer Programming Novices" is finally online. There is a link to the pdf at www.brettbecker.com/publications, under 2015. I couldn't post it there until it was posted to the official repository, which is here, if you want the 'official' version: http://arrow.dit.ie/ltcdis/35/.
This has much of the background and development information that led to the SIGCSE and Computer Science Education papers which are also found on my publications page. I have a PhD student now who will be investigating compiler error enhancement in much more detail than I did. I'll post updates as they come, just to keep the topic alive! If ever you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me. Brett On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 16:05:15 UTC+1, Brett Becker wrote: > > Hi Linda and all, > > My work on enhancing compiler error messages in Java has been published by > *Computer > Science Education. *I believe that as a 'recent article' it is free to > download (for the moment anyway) from > http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=ncse20. > > I also have the accepted manuscript available on my personal webpage here: > http://www.brettbecker.com/becker2016effective/, along with a free link > to the paper if it isn't freely available at T&F, but I think as a 'recent' > article it is. > > Soon I will have my 2015 thesis online which includes details on the > ground-work. I'll send another email when that is up. > > I hope that some of you find this of interest. As I said in my earlier > post the software is at the end of its life in many ways but I have a PhD > student starting now who is going to revive/update/expand the project. I'll > let you know of any interesting developments. > > Regards, > > Brett > > On Monday, 18 April 2016 09:38:16 UTC+1, Brett Becker wrote: >> >> >> Hi Linda, >> >> I have just completed a masters thesis on enhancing Java compiler error >> messages. The thesis in its entirety isn't online yet - I'm waiting for a >> few administrative hurdles to be jumped. What I do have that may help at >> the moment are the following: >> >> >> 1. I have attached a pdf containing about 120 references, mainly on >> novice programmer behavior and enhancing error messages, with a slight >> bias >> towards Java, but there are plenty of references on other languages also. >> Some of these took a long time to track down, and I only discovered some >> later than I would have hoped, so I hope this gives you a jump start. >> There >> are a number of references on software that enhances error messages and >> on >> designing good error messages. There are several PhD and MSc theses >> included that aren't always available on google scholar - some of them >> are >> hiding in fairly dark corners of the net. If you have trouble tracking >> anything in particular down let me know. I should have copies of all of >> these. >> 2. I recently presented some of these results at SIGCSE: >> >> (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2844584&CFID=602145466&CFTOKEN=63845132 >> >> <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2844584&CFID=602145466&CFTOKEN=63845132>). >> >> I found that for the groups that participated in my study and using my >> software, enhancing errors did make a positive difference in terms of >> number of overall errors committed, the number of errors per student, for >> some error messages the number of errors per error message, as well as to >> some extent the number of repeated (consecutive) errors. >> >> The software is now several years old and has reached its end of life in >> too many ways. I have a new PhD student starting next semester however who >> is going to hopefully expand upon this work, in addition to moving in a few >> new directions. >> >> >> I'll send you an email as new information becomes available. I am very >> interested in this area, so please feel free to contact me at any time with >> questions or updates! >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> >> Brett >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PPIG Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
