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What an awful title. What a silly thing to test in isolation; does the syntax of a programming language present a greater barrier to a novice than the semantic
by chromatic 15y ago
What an awful title.
What a silly thing to test in isolation; does the syntax of a programming language present a greater barrier to a novice than the semantics of programming?
A better study would have controlled for the ability of the eighteen participants to describe their algorithms in pseudocode.
- colanderman 15y agoIt's not silly if it's significant.
- chromatic 15y agoIf you can't isolate that sole characteristic, your findings aren't empirically significant.