The neglected battle fields of syntax errors
ACE '03 Proceedings of the fifth Australasian conference on Computing education - Volume 20
Methods and tools for exploring novice compilation behaviour
Proceedings of the second international workshop on Computing education research
Compiler error messages: what can help novices?
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Retina: helping students and instructors based on observed programming activities
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Example-centric programming: integrating web search into the development environment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
On compiler error messages: what they say and what they mean
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Measuring the effectiveness of error messages designed for novice programmers
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Crowdsourcing suggestions to programming problems for dynamic web development languages
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding the syntax barrier for novices
Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Learning programming languages through corrective feedback and concept visualisation
ICWL'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning
No tests required: comparing traditional and dynamic predictors of programming success
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Feedback is regarded as one of the most important influences on student learning and motivation. But standard compiler feedback is designed for experts - not novice programming students, who can find it difficult to interpret and understand. In this paper we present BlueFix, an online tool currently integrated into the BlueJ IDE which is designed to assist programming students with error diagnosis and repair. Unlike existing approaches, BlueFix proposes a feedback algorithm based upon frameworks combined from the HCI and Pedagogical domains, which can provide different students with dynamic levels of support based upon their compilation behaviour. An evaluation revealed that students' viewed our tool positively and that our methodology could identify appropriate fixes for uncompilable source code with a significantly higher rate of speed and precision over related techniques in the literature.