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Download full textPea, Roy D. – 1984
Persistent conceptual bugs exist in how novices, from primary school to college age, program and understand programs. These bugs are not specific to a given programming language but appear to be language-independent. The three different classes of bugs are: (1) parallelism, the assumption that different lines in a program can be active at the same…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns, Higher Education
