About half of first-year students taking computer programming courses have difficulty understanding the use of variables and the assignment operator. The majority of those students will not make ...

The purpose of this research-to-practice work-in-progress paper is to identify students' early misconceptions in the use of variables and assignment operators in a first-year computer programming ...

C and C++ enforce subtle differences on the expressions to the left and right of the assignment operator If you've been programming in either C or C++ ...