String formatting considered harmful for novice programmers

Michael C. Hughes; Matthew C. Jadud; Ma Mercedes T. Rodrigo

doi:10.1080/08993408.2010.507335

String formatting considered harmful for novice programmers

Michael C. Hughes
, Matthew C. Jadud
, Ma Mercedes T. Rodrigo

Department of Information Systems and Computer Science

F.W. Olin College of Engineering
Allegheny College

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	201-228
Number of pages	28
Journal	Computer Science Education
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2010.507335
State	Published - Sep 2010

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General Computer Science
Education

Keywords

BlueJ
Java
Novice programmer behavior
String formatting
Syntax errors

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