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Novice mistakes: are the folk wisdoms correct?
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An evaluation of two folk wisdoms serves to elucidate the underlying or "deep-structure" reasons for novice errors.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Spohrer, J. C., & Soloway, E.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1986-07
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 624-632
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2058580210
- Cited by
- 310
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 6.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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