Hi Simon,
Michael Eraut and I wrote about these issues in a medical context. Our
technical report can be found here. Chapter 3 is the most relevant.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/bend/doh/
Ben du Boulay
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
On 15 May 2013, at 17:09, Simon Gray
Dear PPIG,
Does anyone know of accessible data on the development of programming expertise
across the years of an undergraduate degree?
I know about the phenomenographic thesis by Shirley Booth observing
undergraduates and the longitudinal study by Judy Kay and Richard Thomas of the
developme
There was interesting work done in the 70s exploring how non-
programmers described in English tasks
that, in principle, might be turned into programs (see e.g. Lance A.
Miller, Thomas Green, John C. Thomas).
The experiments showed that neither loops nor conditionals as often
employed in imperativ
