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Mental models of recursion
2003
Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '03
Recursion is a fundamental concept in Computer Science. A student's knowledge of recursion can be termed their mental model of recursion. A student's mental model is viable if it allows them to accurately and consistently represent the mechanics of recursion. Non-viable mental models are constructed if students have misconceptions about the mechanisms of recursion or have misconceptions about concepts fundamental to recursion. This paper presents a study of the mental models of recursion that
doi:10.1145/612001.612004
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