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"But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see

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Ginat, D; Astrachan, O; Garcia, DD; Guzdial, M
Published in: Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
March 3, 2004

It is not rare that programming students are surprised when they encounter bugs in their program, which "looks completely right". Such a phenomenon expresses lack of awareness of analysis, design, and testing habits, which yield undesirable outcomes. The special session will focus on various programming aspects that may look seemingly right to students, but yield a buggy, wrong result. Various aspects will be displayed, illustrated, and discussed with the audience, in order to better understand the characteristics of bugs and ways of coping with them in our teaching.

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Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Publication Date

March 3, 2004

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284 / 285
 

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Ginat, D., Astrachan, O., Garcia, D. D., & Guzdial, M. (2004). "But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see. Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 284–285.
Ginat, D., O. Astrachan, D. D. Garcia, and M. Guzdial. “"But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see.” Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 3, 2004, 284–85.
Ginat D, Astrachan O, Garcia DD, Guzdial M. "But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see. Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 2004 Mar 3;284–5.
Ginat, D., et al. “"But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see.” Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Mar. 2004, pp. 284–85.
Ginat D, Astrachan O, Garcia DD, Guzdial M. "But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see. Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 2004 Mar 3;284–285.

Published In

Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Publication Date

March 3, 2004

Start / End Page

284 / 285