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What an awful title.

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.




It's not silly if it's significant.


If you can't isolate that sole characteristic, your findings aren't empirically significant.




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