| Anderson, J.R. and Jeffries, R. (1985) Novice LISP Errors: Undetected Losses of Information from Working Memory. Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (2). 107-131. |
....of two folk wisdoms serves to elucidate the underlying or deep structure reasons for novice errors. JAMES C. SPOHRER and ELLIOT SOLOWAY MOTIVATION AND GOALS Researchers have recently been trying to gain an understanding of the kinds of mistakes novice pro grammers are likely to make [2, 4, 7, 11, 15, 19]. One of the main motivations for these efforts is to im prove the quality of programming education through a better understanding of what goes wrong. In this article we focus on two common perceptions what we will call folk wisdoms about bugs: Just a few types of bugs can account for a ....
....in specializing a plan. h. Unexpected cases problem. Novices occasionally write programs that work correctly for certain common cases, but not for all cases (e.g. uncommon, unlikely, or boundary cases) i. Cognitive load problem. Novices may not detect losses of information from working memory [2]. Small but important parts of plans may be dropped out, or plan interactions may be overlooked. Future research is aimed at verifying the plausible accounts we have hypothesized, finding alternative plausible accounts, and developing a student model of program generation. July 1986 Volume 29 ....
Anderson, J.R.. and Jeffries, R. Novice LISP errors: Undetected losses of information from working memory. Hum,-Comput. Interaction 1, 2 (1985). 107-131.
....the most prominent problems seemed to fall along the following cognitive dimensions and HCI principles: Visibility. Memory overload is a problem for all programmers, but is particularly troublesome for beginners because they have not yet developed strategies to relieve their memory load (Anderson Jeffries, 1985; Davies, 1993) The programming system should make information visible or readily accessible any time it is relevant. Closeness of mapping. Programming is a process of translating a mental plan into one that is compatible with the computer (Hoc Nguyen Xuan, 1990) The language should ....
Anderson, J. R., & Jeffries, R. (1985). Novice LISP Errors: Undetected Losses of Information from Working Memory. Human-Computer Interaction, 1, 107-131.
....demand seems at least a plausible source of explanation for post completion errors. Working memory load is a promising avenue for two other reasons: First, working memory load has been empirically and theoretically implicated in the production of errors by other researchers (e.g. Hitch, 1978; Anderson Jeffries, 1985; Libi re, Anderson, Reder, 1994) although this work has typically not investigated systematic errors. Second, a formal, that is a computational, model of the effects of working memory load exists, and this model uses a representation production rules that is well suited to modeling ....
Anderson, J. R., & Jeffries, R. (1985). Novice LISP errors: Undetected losses of information from working memory. Human-Computer Interaction, 22, 403-423.
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Anderson, J.R. and Jeffries, R. (1985) Novice LISP Errors: Undetected Losses of Information from Working Memory. Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (2). 107-131.
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J. R. Anderson and R. Jeffries, "Novice LISP Errors: Undetected Losses of Information from Working Memory," Human-Computer Interaction, 1, pp. 107-131, 1985.
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Anderson, J.R., Jeffries, R.: Novice LISP Errors: Undetected Losses of Information from Working Memory. Human--Computer Interaction. 22, 403-423, 1985.
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Anderson, J.R., Jeffries, R.: Novice LISP Errors: Undetected Losses of Information from Working Memory. Human--Computer Interaction. 22, 403-423, 1985.
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J. R. Anderson and R. Jeffries, `Novice LISP errors: undetected losses of information from working memory', Human--Computer Interaction, 1, 107--131 (1985).
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Anderson, J. and Jeffries, R.. "Novice LISP Errors: Undetected Losses of Information from Working Memory." Human-Computer Interaction, 1:2, 1985. 63
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J. R. Anderson and R. Jeffries, "Novice LISP errors: Undetected losses of information from working memory," Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 1, pp. 107--131, 1985.
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