Surely we must learn to read before we learn to write!

Title: Surely we must learn to read before we learn to write!
Creator: Simon; Lopez, Mike; Sutton, Ken; Clear, Tony
Relation: 11th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2009). Computing Education 2009: Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2009) (Wellington, New Zealand 19-23 January, 2009) p. 165-170
Relation: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/conf/ace_2009
Publisher: Australian Computer Society
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2009
Description: While analysing students’ marks in some comparable code-reading and code-writing questions on a beginners’ programming exam, we observed that the weaker students appeared to be able to write code with markedly more success than they could read it. Examination of a second data set from a different institution failed to confirm the observation, and appropriate statistical analysis failed to find any evidence for the conclusion. We speculate on the reasons for the lack of a firm finding, and consider what we might need to do next in order to more thoroughly explore the possibility of a relationship between the codereading and code-writing abilities of novice programming students.
Subject: reading programs; writing programs; novice programmers
Identifier: uon:9055
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920038
Identifier: ISBN:9781920682767
Identifier: ISSN:1445-1336
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