A diagnosis of beginning programmers' misconceptions of BASIC programming statements

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1983, Pages 677-679

  Bayman, Piraye ^a   Mayer, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BASIC; languages; man machine interface; novices; programming

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE TESTING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - BASIC;

BASIC; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INVISIBLE INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE; MENTAL MODEL; NOVICE; PROCESS OF LEARNING; PROGRAMMING; USER CONCEPTION;

STUDENTS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0020809407     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/358172.358408     Document Type: Article

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