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

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

doi:10.1145/1028174.971401

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

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

^*Corresponding author for this work

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
Pages (from-to)	284-285
Number of pages	2
Journal	SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1028174.971401
State	Published - Mar 2004
Event	35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Norfolk, VA, United States Duration: 3 Mar 2004 → 7 Mar 2004

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Student Errors

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