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Daniel Bauer

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Preprint Oct 2026

Can LLMs Simulate Novice Programmers'Misconceptions?

We evaluate 13 LLMs on generating, solving, simulating, and diagnosing novice programming misconceptions on code-tracing problems. While frontier models reliably perform these tasks, small models ($\le$14B) struggle with dynamic execution. Notably, code-tuned models fail during misconception simulation by reverting to...

B. Yeltekin, Daniel Bauer · 0 citations