In March 2011, California State Parks entered an agreement with University of California
Merced (UCM) to create an interactive, learning game able to educate students, schools and …

Background and Context. Metacognitive skills are important for all students learning to
program and interest in applying pedagogical approaches in early programming courses that …

In March 2011, California State Parks entered an agreement with University of California
Merced (UCM) to create an interactive, learning game able to educate students, schools and …

Metacognition and self-regulation are popular areas of interest in programming education,
and they have been extensively researched outside of computing. While computing education …

Most novice programmers are not explicitly aware of the problem-solving process used to
approach programming problems and cannot articulate to an instructor where they are in that …

The difficulty in understanding compiler error messages can be a major impediment to
novice student learning. To alleviate this issue, multiple researchers have run experiments …

Reading a programming error message is the first step in understanding what it is trying to tell
the programmer about how to fix an error in their code. However, these are often difficult to …

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

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 the …

It is well known that programming error messages can be notoriously difficult for novices to
understand, hampering progress and leading to frustration. In response, researchers have …