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

Pierson, Joan K.; Horn, Jeretta A.

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Publication Date: 1984

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

Pierson, Joan K.; Horn, Jeretta A.

AEDS Journal, v17 n3 p53-60 Spr 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. (MBR)

Descriptors: Business Education, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Higher Education, Programing, Programing Languages, Research Methodology, Syntax, Tables (Data)

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