A psychology of learning BASIC

Authors:
Richard E. Mayer
Affiliations:
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1979

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Abstract

This paper addresses the question: What does a person know following learning of BASIC programming? Several underlying conceptual structures are identified: (1) a transaction is an event that occurs in the computer and involves some operation on some object at some location, (2) a prestatement is a set of transactions corresponding to a line of code, (3) chunks are frequently occurring configurations of prestatements corresponding to several lines of code.