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From Clinical Interviews to Policy Recommendations: A Case Study in High School Computer Programming. Study of Stanford and the Schools Technology Panel.

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Sleeman, D.; Gong, Brian – 1985

In order to determine the knowledge and skills needed by novice programmers to successfully learn computer programming, four studies were conducted using a clinical interview technique. The first study determined that many systematic errors in programming were due to programmers' high-level misconceptions of the nature of the computer and of the…

Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Computers, Error Patterns

Syntactical Errors in Programs Written by Beginning Students in Business Programming.

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Pierson, Joan K.; Horn, Jeretta A. – AEDS Journal, 1984

Unsuccessful programing attempts by university business students in introductory COBOL classes were analyzed to determine most frequently occurring syntactical errors. Results indicate the most common errors were use of undeclared data in Procedure Division, missing periods, misspelled reserved words, missing hyphens, and use of wrong margin area.…

Descriptors: Business Education, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Higher Education