Compiler error messages: What can help novices?

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 168-172

  Nienaltowski, Marie Hélěne ^a   Pedroni, Michela ^b   Meyer, Bertrand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compiler error messages; Novice programmers

Indexed keywords

COMPILER ERROR MESSAGES; ERROR MESSAGES; ERROR TYPES; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSES; LEVEL OF DETAILS; NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; PRESENTATION FORMATS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SPEED OF RESPONSES;

COMPUTERS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; TEACHING;

ERRORS;

EID: 57449110941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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