Y. S. Chee, "Applying Gentner's theory of analogy to the teaching of computer programming". International Journal of Man Machine Studies, 38(3):347-368, 1993.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....was essentially a cover story (involving paper work in an office) for the behaviour of the virtual machine constituted by the FORTRAN compiler and runtime environment. A metaphorical cover story of this type gives the learner a framework in which to understand the effects of their actions. Chee [9] has suggested that the quality of such a metaphor can be formally evaluated in terms of the quality of the analogical structure mapping from the metaphor domain to the programming language domain. 1.1. Metaphor and mental models If learners are not given an explicit cover story of this type, ....

Y. S. Chee, "Applying Gentner's theory of analogy to the teaching of computer programming". International Journal of Man Machine Studies, 38(3):347-368, 1993.

....does not constitute analogy. For example, Gentner, 83] argues that humans prefer systematic (highly connected) analogies that map higher order relations in a one to one fashion from source to target. This is a theoretical assertion that is supported by a broad spectrum of empirical evidence [Chee, 93; Clement and Gentner, 91; Gentner and Toupin, 86; Hall, 89] For example, experiments by Chee have demonstrated that good explanatory analogies are characterised by high systematicity. If we consider Figure 2.1, for deep understanding of analogies, subjects need to do the mappings A to B, A to C, ....

Chee, Y.S. "Applying Gentner's theory of analogy to the teaching of computer programming." International Journal of Man-Machine Studies Vol: 38 (1993), 347-368.

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