Novices learned BASIC computer programming from a standard manual that emphasized
the language's syntactic features or from a standard manual that included additional material …

Abstract In 3 studies, 176 nonprogrammers (undergraduates) learned a computer
programming language by a method (model) that emphasized a diagram model of a …

Publisher Summary The study of human learning and cognition attempts to find out the
general principles that can be applied to a wide range of situations to understand learning …

Two complementary processes may be distinguished in learning a complex cognitive skill
such as computer programming. First, automation offers task-specific procedures that may …

This article proposes a conceptual framework for analyzing students' knowledge of
programming. The framework integrates three distinct types of programming knowledge …

The avowed purpose of most programming courses is to teach problem solving as well as to
teach programming. How this purpose can be achieved is the topic of the first part of this …

This chapter explores factors that may determine the cognitive demands of programming. It
focuses on a study of these cognitive demands conducted with high school students …

This article reports on a year-long study of high school students learning computer
programming. The study examined three issues: 1) what is the impact of programming on …

Reports the evaluation of instructional interventions designed to foster higher cognitive skill
(ie, planning) in a computer programming course. 30 8th graders were exposed to the …

Learning and transfer of procedural skills was measured as a function of conceptual
understanding (subjects' mental models) induced by conceptual models in the form of …