Type: Other
Purpose: The purpose of this paper was "present an overview of a five-day introductory programming course" (p. 51). This paper only reports on the findings from the course, but this was not the actual study.
Findings: 1. "It took the students an average of 4.2 attempts to fix a program that had errors" (p. 55) 2. "The student attempted an average of 8.3 times to fix the error before giving up
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Participant Type: This was a pilot course for 4th and 5th graders (9 and 10 year olds) in an enrichment course with no prior programming experience