Simulating Student Programmers

Spohrer, James C.; Soloway, Elliot

Simulating Student Programmers

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Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cognitive Models. Pages 543-548.

Abstract

A cognitive model of student programmers is presented The model is based on protocol studies of students writing Pascal programs, and is implemented in a computer simulation program. The claim of this paper is that a computational cognitive model of student program generation fits within a generate-test-and-debug (GID) problem solving architecture in which impasse/repair knowledge plays a key role. The claim is supported by showing how the model provides a useful descriptive account of the way students write alternative programs.

James C. Spohrer, and Elliot Soloway. 1989. Simulating Student Programmers. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-89. IJCAI, 543–548. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/87

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  author    = {Spohrer, James C. and Soloway, Elliot},
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