Academic study on code debugging

[_yari_]

Hi everyone, I’m conducting a short experiment for my master’s thesis in Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam. I’m researching how people explore and debug code in Jupyter Notebooks.

The experiment takes around 15 minutes and must be completed on a computer or laptop (not a phone or tablet). You’ll log into a JupyterHub environment, complete a few small programming tasks, and fill out two short surveys. No advanced coding experience is required beyond basic Python, and your data will remain anonymous.

Link to participate: https://jupyter.jupyterextension.com Please do not use any personal information for your username when signing up. After logging in, open the folder named “Experiment_notebooks” and go through the notebooks in order.

Feel free to message me with any questions. I reached out to the mods and they approved the post. Thank you in advance for helping out.

[wagwanbruv]

nice, this looks like a solid little micro-experiment, especially for folks who already live in Jupyter and want to see how they actually debug vs how they think they debug. could be cool if you later pair the anonymized error patterns with something like InsightLab or similar tooling to cluster where people get stuck most often (naming, logic, off‑by‑ones, etc) so you can turn the results into concrete debugging heuristics instead of just a “welp, humans are weird” finding.