A Comparative Study of High and Low Performing Students’ Visual Effort and Attention When Identifying Syntax Errors

• Main Authors: Pacol, Caren A., Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T., Tablatin, Christine Lourrine S.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Compiler Error Messages; Error Lines; Eye-tracking; Syntax Errors; Visual Attention; Visual Effort; Computer Engineering; Computer Sciences; Engineering; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces; Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/431; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61569-6_6
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Debugging is an important skill to learn for novice programmers and since compiler error messages are instrumental to the debugging process, investigating how novice programmers read and process these messages has become a subject of interest among computer science education researchers. Prior studi...