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Bhagya Munasinghe; Tim Bell; Anthony Robins – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2023
In learning to program and understanding how a programming language controls a computer, learners develop both insights and misconceptions whilst their mental models are gradually refined. It is important that the learner is able to distinguish the different elements and roles of a computer (compiler, interpreter, memory, etc.), which novice…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Programming Languages
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Olaperi Okuboyejo; Sigrid Ewert; Ian Sanders – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Regular expressions (REs) are often taught to undergraduate computer science majors in the Formal Languages and Automata (FLA) course; they are widely used to implement different software functionalities such as search mechanisms and data validation in diverse fields. Despite their importance, the difficulty of REs has been asserted many times in…
Descriptors: Automation, Feedback (Response), Error Patterns, Error Correction