Explaining program code: giving students the answer helps - but only just

By Simon, Susan Snowdon. 2011

30 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Media Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering

How researchers see this paper

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In Computer Science Applications

1. Paul Denny
2. Juho Leinonen
3. Sami Sarsa
4. Arto Hellas
5. Stephen MacNeil
6. Seth Bernstein
7. Andrew Tran
8. Joanne Kim

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. Sami Sarsa
2. Juho Leinonen
3. Arto Hellas
4. Paul Denny
5. Seth Bernstein
6. Andrew Tran
7. Stephen MacNeil
8. Joanne Kim

In Software Engineering

1. Juho Leinonen
2. Arto Hellas
3. Stephen MacNeil
4. Seth Bernstein
5. Andrew Tran

Citations in the corpus

• Comparing Code Explanations Created by Students and Large Language Models (2023, background): “However, students struggle to explain their own code and the ability to explain code is a difficult skill to develop [20, 21, 40].”
• Benefits of Self-explanation in Introductory Programming (2015, background): “performance on written explanations and multiple-choice questions in examinations [23, 24].”