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An Evaluation of SeeC: A Tool Designed to Assist Novice C Programmers with Program Understanding and Debugging
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Heinsen Egan, Matthew; McDonald, Chris – Computer Science Education, 2021
Background and Context: Students learning the C programming language struggle to debug, and to understand the runtime behaviour of, their programs. Objective: We examine a tool that combines several novice-focused error detection, program visualization, and debugging techniques, to investigate which features students use in real study sessions,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Programming, Novices