Teaching Java to IS Students:Top Ten Most Heinous Programming Errors

摘要

Learning to write computer programs is a difficult process. This short experience paper details ten common, yet difficult tornspot errors made by students in my introductory Java programming classes. The errors detailed in this article are consideredrn"heinous" because they either don't occur every time, are hard to spot when desk checking code, are due to an inconsistencyrnin the Java language itself, or all of the above. Along with the errors this article describes teaching techniques to helprnstudents avoid them and suggests potential language modifications to preclude them.