Common logic errors made by novice programmers

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Comparing Code Explanations Created by Students and Large Language Models (2023, background): “Regardless, students may face roadblocks, including logical errors [12] and syntactical errors [10] when trying to understand code.”
Automatic Generation of Programming Exercises and Code Explanations Using Large Language Models (2022, background): “We note, of course, that a confusion between printing and returning values is a commonly cited error made by novices Ettles et al. (2018); Izu and Dinh (2018). In addition, a common issue was that the tests expected specific numbers that were not possible with the inputs (e.”
Robosourcing Educational Resources - Leveraging Large Language Models for Learnersourcing (2022, background): “We note, of course, that a confusion between printing and returning values is a commonly cited error made by novices [44, 45].”