Diagnostic messages generated by compilers and interpreters such as syntax error
messages have been researched for over half of a century. Unfortunately, these messages …

Educational data mining and learning analytics promise better understanding of student
behavior and knowledge, as well as new information on the tacit factors that contribute to …

Recent developments in deep learning have resulted in code-generation models that
produce source code from natural language and code-based prompts with high accuracy …

Reasoning about code and explaining its purpose are fundamental skills for computer
scientists. There has been extensive research in the field of computing education on the …

Background and Context: Over the past year, large language models (LLMs) have taken the
world by storm. In computing education, like in other walks of life, many opportunities and …

Previous investigations of student errors have typically focused on samples of hundreds of
students at individual institutions. This work uses a year's worth of compilation events from …

Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to
novice computer science students in the field. While this syntax barrier is known to exist …

Teaching programming to beginners is a complex task. In this article, the effects of three
factors—choice of programming language, problem-solving training, and the use of …

Programming error messages play an important role in learning to program. The cycle of
program input and error message response completes a loop between the programmer and …

Building is an integral part of the software development process. However, little is known
about the compiler errors that occur in this process. In this paper, we present an empirical …