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The Effect of User-Specified Language Elements on Learning to Program.
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Madeo, Laurence A.; Bird, David A. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1990
Discussion of the benefits of allowing programers to use their own words in programing focuses on a study of graduate students that tested whether an experimental group who specified their own operation codes performed better than a control group who used fixed codes. The results of regression analyses are discussed, and future research needs are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education