Investigation of the relationship between program correctness and programming style

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Grigas, Gintautas

Affiliations: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos St. 4, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania

Abstract: The results of investigation of computer programs written by school students during the 6th International Olympiad in Informatics are presented. Pascal program texts are analyzed on the lexical level. A certain relationship is indicated between program correctness and usage of some programming constructs as well as readability of the program text. The results are discussed from the standpoint of programming teaching.

Keywords: programming style, program metrics, teaching of programming, Turbo Pascal

DOI: 10.3233/INF-1995-6302

Journal: Informatica, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 265-276, 1995