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Understanding Students' Failure to Use Functions as a Tool for Abstraction -- An Analysis of Questionnaire Responses and Lab Assignments in a CS1 Python Course
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Haglund, Pontus; Strömbäck, Filip; Mannila, Linda – Informatics in Education, 2021
Controlling complexity through the use of abstractions is a critical part of problem solving in programming. Thus, becoming proficient with procedural and data abstraction through the use of user-defined functions is important. Properly using functions for abstraction involves a number of other core concepts, such as parameter passing, scope and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Programming Languages, Problem Solving