Debugging tutor: preliminary evaluation

This paper discusses the continuing work related to an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) to teach introductory computer science students how to be better debuggers, including the first evaluation of the first completed phase of the system. This paper builds on previous work discussed in [3] and [4].

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