Marc Eisenstadt Mark T. Keane (University College Dublin Tim Rajan
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)...
This book, originally published in 1992, encapsulates ten years of research at the Open University's Human Cognition Research Laboratory. The research...