In a large crowd-sourced experiment, natural-language descriptions of buggy algorithms improved debugging accuracy over Python code for users who understood the task, while hints mainly helped users working with code.
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Hints Help Finding and Fixing Bugs Differently in Python and Text-based Program Representations
In a large crowd-sourced experiment, natural-language descriptions of buggy algorithms improved debugging accuracy over Python code for users who understood the task, while hints mainly helped users working with code.