Teaching Students To Use Programming Error Messages
Dennis J. Bouvier, Ellie Lovellette, Eddie Antonio Santos, Brett A. Becker, Tom Crick, Venu G. Dasigi, Jack Forden, Olga Glebova, Swaroop Joshi, Stan Kurkovsky, Seán Russell · 2023
Research shows many students struggle to use programming error and warning messages effectively. Instead of using these messages as aids to debug and fix their code, some students have negative emotional reactions to seeing 'angry red text'. Not utilizing programming error and warning messages effectively, or at all, increases the difficulty of learning to program.