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title: "Learning to Program"
authors:
  - "John R. Anderson"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/14"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0014.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "57-61"
track: "Cognitive Modelling"
keywords:
---

# Learning to Program

John R. Anderson

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 57-61.

## Abstract

Three aspects of learning to program are described--the organization and compilation of problem-solving operators, the impact of knowledge representation, and the impact of working memory limitation s. The GRAPES system simulates the organization and compilation of th ese operators. Th e simulation of one pr.oblem -so lving episode is discussed. Al so discussed are the impact of different data notations and the im pac t of working memory load on successful application of LISP functions.