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Peer reviewedPea, Roy D. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1986
Three classes of conceptual bugs presenting obstacles to all novice programmers and not related to any specific program--parallelism, intentionality, and egocentrism--are identified and exemplified through student errors. It is suggested these bugs are rooted in students' intuitive feeling that programming languages, like humans, have intelligent,…
Descriptors: Classification, Egocentrism, Error Patterns, Intuition
