A description and study of intermediate student programmer errors

To date there has been considerable investigation into the study of novice programmer errors. The research has analyzed both syntactic and semantic errors. However, the next level of programmers, who make more sophisticated errors, the internmediate level programmers, have been somewhat neglected. In this paper, we focus on the nature of the errors which intermediate level programmers make. The basis of our study is the semantic approach. Here, we the study problems which require more difficult program constructs such as nested loops, arrays, recursion, and functions.