Reasoning Trajectories for Socratic Debugging of Student Code: From Misconceptions to Contradictions and Updated Beliefs

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Autori principali:	Al-Hossami, Erfan, Bunescu, Razvan
Natura:	Preprint
Pubblicazione:	2025
Soggetti:	Computation and Language Computers and Society Software Engineering
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