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CHI
2000
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Agents to assist in finding help
When a novice needs help, often the best solution is to find a human expert who is capable of answering the novice’s questions. But often, novices have difficulty characterizing...
Adriana Santarosa Vivacqua, Henry Lieberman
ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Novice Java programmers' conceptions of "object" and "class", and variation theory
Problems with understanding concepts, so called misconceptions, have been investigated and reported in a number of studies regarding object-oriented programming [4], [3]. In a fi...
Anna Eckerdal, Michael Thuné
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Compiler error messages: what can help novices?
Novices find it difficult to understand and use compiler error messages. It is useful to refine this observation and study the effect of different message styles on how well and q...
Marie-Hélène Nienaltowski, Michela P...
VRST
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
3D object arrangement for novice users: the effectiveness of combining a first-person and a map view
Arranging 3D objects in Virtual Environments can be a complex, error prone and time consuming task, especially for users who are not familiar with interfaces for 3D navigation and...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Lucio Ieronutti
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 7 months ago
SmartTutor: Creating IDE-based interactive tutorials via editable replay
Interactive tutorials, like Eclipse's cheat sheets, are good for novice programmers to learn how to perform tasks (e.g., checking out a CVS project) in an Integrated Developm...
Ying Zhang, Gang Huang, Nuyun Zhang, Hong Mei