Experience Report: Identifying common misconceptions and errors of novice programmers with ChatGPT

• Main Author: FWA, Hua Leong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: LLM; ChatGPT; misconception; programming; errors; cluster; prompts; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8839; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9842/viewcontent/error_summary_chatgpt.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Identifying the misconceptions of novice programmers is pertinent for informing instructors of the challenges faced by their students in learning computer programming. In the current literature, custom tools, test scripts were developed and, in most cases, manual effort to go through the individual...