Successful students' strategies for getting unstuck
Robert McCartney, Anna Eckerdal, Jan Erik Moström, Kate Sanders, Carol Zander · 2007
Students often get stuck when trying to learn new computing concepts and skills. In this paper, we present and categorize strategies that successful students found helpful in getting unstuck. We found that the students reported using a broad range of strategies, and that these strategies fall into a number of recognizably different categories.