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Stephanie Yang; Miles Baird; Eleanor O’Rourke; Karen Brennan; Bertrand Schneider – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Students learning computer science frequently struggle with debugging errors in their code. These struggles can have significant downstream effects--negatively influencing how students assess their programming ability and contributing to their decision to drop out of CS courses. However, debugging instruction is often an overlooked topic, and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Troubleshooting, Programming, Teaching Methods
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Abdullahi Yusuf; Amiru Yusuf Muhammad – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
The study investigates the potential of anxiety clusters in predicting programming performance in two distinct coding environments. Participants comprised 83 second-year programming students who were randomly assigned to either a block-based or a text-based group. Anxiety-induced behaviors were assessed using physiological measures (Apple Watch…
Descriptors: Novices, Programming, Anxiety, Coding