Ask programming students what a trivial code snippet of an unknown language does.
Some form a consistent model. Right or wrong, these can learn programming.
Others imagine a different working every time they encounter the same instruction. These will fail no matter what. I suspect they treat it as a discussion, where repeating a question means a new answer is wanted.
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Ask programming students what a trivial code snippet of an unknown language does.
Some form a consistent model.
Right or wrong, these can learn programming.
Others imagine a different working every time they encounter the same instruction.
These will fail no matter what.
I suspect they treat it as a discussion, where repeating a question means a new answer is wanted.