What a silly thing to test in isolation; does the syntax of a programming language present a greater barrier to a novice than the semantics of programming?
A better study would have controlled for the ability of the eighteen participants to describe their algorithms in pseudocode.
What a silly thing to test in isolation; does the syntax of a programming language present a greater barrier to a novice than the semantics of programming?
A better study would have controlled for the ability of the eighteen participants to describe their algorithms in pseudocode.