Novice mistakes: are the folk wisdoms correct?
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 29 (7) , 624-632
- https://doi.org/10.1145/6138.6145
Abstract
An evaluation of two folk wisdoms serves to elucidate the underlying or "deep-structure" reasons for novice errors.Keywords
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