4 papers
An Investigation Into Secondary School Students' Debugging Behaviour in Python
Laurie Gale, Sue Sentance
Background and context: Debugging is a significant and often frustrating challenge for beginner programmers. Understanding students' debugging behaviours and strategies can help to…
The Hands-Up Problem and How to Deal With It: Secondary School Teachers' Experiences of Debugging in the Classroom
Laurie Gale, Sue Sentance
Debugging is a vital but challenging skill for beginner programmers to learn. It is also a difficult skill to teach. For secondary school teachers, who may lack time or programming…
PRIMMDebug: Teaching Secondary School Students a Reflective Approach to Debugging
Laurie Gale, Sue Sentance
Debugging is a challenging and infuriating experience for many secondary school students learning their first text-based programming language. One frequent problem is the lack of r…
Empowering Computing Education Researchers Through LLM-Assisted Content Analysis
Laurie Gale, Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen
Computing education research (CER) is often instigated by practitioners wanting to improve both their own and the wider discipline's teaching practice. However, the latter is often…