Profiling Programming Language Learning

This paper documents a year-long experiment to “profile” the process of learning a programming language: gathering data to understand what makes a language hard to learn, and using that data to improve the learning process. We added interactive quizzes to The Rust Programming Language, the official...

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Published in:	Proceedings of ACM on programming languages Vol. 8; no. OOPSLA1; pp. 29 - 54
Main Authors:	Crichton, Will, Krishnamurthi, Shriram
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY, USA ACM 29.04.2024
Subjects:	Applied computing E-learning General programming languages Software and its engineering rust education digital textbooks item response theory
ISSN:	2475-1421, 2475-1421
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