danluu, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) This study that looks into what errors CS students make is fascinating: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/lk-smol-tutor/paper.pdf Among other things, it really shows how reasoning about computer programs is not intuitive to people, even people who've had years of training (the class is an optional class mostly taken by 3rd/4th year CS majors, with 10% grad students)
This study that looks into what errors CS students make is fascinating:
https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/lk-smol-tutor/paper.pdf
Among other things, it really shows how reasoning about computer programs is not intuitive to people, even people who've had years of training (the class is an optional class mostly taken by 3rd/4th year CS majors, with 10% grad students)
