"But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see

David Ginat; Owen Astrachan; Daniel D. Garcia; Mark Guzdial

"But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see

David Ginat^*, Owen Astrachan, Daniel D. Garcia, Mark Guzdial

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School of Education

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Abstract

It is not rare that programming students are surprised when they encounter bugs in their program, which "looks completely right". Such a phenomenon expresses lack of awareness of analysis, design, and testing habits, which yield undesirable outcomes. The special session will focus on various programming aspects that may look seemingly right to students, but yield a buggy, wrong result. Various aspects will be displayed, illustrated, and discussed with the audience, in order to better understand the characteristics of bugs and ways of coping with them in our teaching.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2004
Pages	284-285
Number of pages	2
State	Published - 2004
Event	Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Norfolk, VA, United States Duration: 3 Mar 2004 → 7 Mar 2004

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Conference

Conference	Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Country/Territory	United States
City	Norfolk, VA
Period	3/03/04 → 7/03/04

Keywords

Pedagogy
Student Errors

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Ginat, D, Astrachan, O, Garcia, DD & Guzdial, M 2004, "But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see. in Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2004. Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 284-285, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, VA, United States, 3/03/04.

"But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see. / Ginat, David; Astrachan, Owen; Garcia, Daniel D. et al.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2004. 2004. p. 284-285 (Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education).

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