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Novice Programming Environments: Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence

Novice Programming Environments: Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence

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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence

General Psychology

ISBN10: 081535164X
ISBN13: 9780815351641
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 6 2020
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book, originally published in 1992, encapsulates ten years of research at the Open University's Human Cognition Research Laboratory. The research investigates the problems of novice programmers, and is strongly oriented toward the design and implementation of programming environments aimed at eliminating or easing novices' problems. A range of languages is studied: Pascal, SOLO, Lisp, Prolog and Knowledge Engineering Programming. The primary emphasis of the empirical studies is to gain some understanding of novices' mental models of the inner workings of computers. Such (erroneous) models are constructed by novices in their own heads to account for the idiosyncrasies of particular programming languages. The primary emphasis of the implementations described in the book is the provision of automatic debugging aids, i.e. artificial intelligence programs which can analyse novices' buggy programs, and make sense of them, thereby providing useful advice for the novices.

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