Most Difficult Errors for Students to Resolve

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Most Difficult Errors for Students to Resolve

Mohit Chandarana

29 May 2025

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Elise Deitrick

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Previous work has mostly investigated the top errors made by novice Java and Python learners to explore enhancing error messages, manifestation of misconceptions, or inform instructor decisions. We build on this work by analyzing anonymized data from more languages (i.e. C, C++, Java, and Python) and using an at-scale data set. We generalized errors into categories to create a language-independent set of the most frequent and most difficult-to-resolve errors.

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