Novice Programmer Errors A continuation of a study on improving Error Detection

Identification and Classification of Errors through the use of Manually and Automatically Generated Detection rules

Identification and Classification  Follows detection Overview

Detection Rules  Manual  Automated Overview

Context of Study  Error logs  Intelligent Tutors Context of Study

Framework  Expert System  Java Compiler Framework

Methodology  Built upon previous work  Error Detector  Parser  Case Identification  Error Handlers Methodology

Results  Prevalent patterns  Further improvement Results

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