Re: [fonc] patterns/research for newbie PLs

2007-12-13 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
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

Re: [fonc] patterns/research for newbie PLs

2007-12-12 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hi Jason, On Dec 11, 2007 10:49 PM, Jason Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a good article. Thanks for that. I'm currently trying to find more articles that could be of use to this project. The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (http://www.ppig.org) has a lot of articles and I

[fonc] patterns/research for newbie PLs

2007-12-11 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hi, maybe this is of interest to you (probably the VPRI members already know it, though): http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/cmu-cs-96-132.html It's a collection of empirical studies and expert opinions about programming language usability for novices. It also mentions visual languages. The paper might

Re: [fonc] patterns/research for newbie PLs

2007-12-11 Thread Kim Rose
fyi... Our team worked closely with Jim Spohrer while at Apple Computer. He remains a good friend and colleague. -- Kim On Dec 11, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Jason Johnson wrote: This is a good article. Thanks for that. Did you notice this part? [Spohrer 1986b] found that many novice bugs

Re: [fonc] patterns/research for newbie PLs

2007-12-11 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hello Kim, On Dec 11, 2007 11:06 PM, Kim Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fyi... Our team worked closely with Jim Spohrer while at Apple Computer. He remains a good friend and colleague. Could you please give me his email address or ask him whether his studies showed that math operator