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Direct linkStefik, Andreas; Siebert, Susanna – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to novice computer science students in the field. While this syntax barrier is known to exist, whether and how it varies across programming languages has not been carefully investigated. For this article, we conducted four empirical studies on programming…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Syntax, Computer Science Education, Novices
