Notional Machines
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A notional machine is a pedagogic device to assist the understanding of some aspect of programs or programming. Select a notional machine to see misconceptions it can express:

To learn more about notional machines, read:

ITiCSE-WGR '20: Proceedings of the Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

To browse a curated collection of notional machines used in programming education, check out notionalmachines.github.io.

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