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WatChat: Explaining perplexing programs by debugging mental models
Kartik Chandra, Katherine M. Collins, Will Crichton +6
Often, a good explanation for a program's unexpected behavior is a bug in the programmer's code. But sometimes, an even better explanation is a bug in the programmer's mental model…
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Profiling Programming Language Learning
Will Crichton, Shriram Krishnamurthi
This paper documents a year-long experiment to "profile" the process of learning a programming language: gathering data to understand what makes a language hard to learn, and using…