Everything about Error message

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Error messageA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The Effect of Automated Error Message Feedback on Undergraduate Physics Students Learning Python: Reducing Anxiety and Building ConfidenceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Sad Macs, bombs, and other disastersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Effective compiler error message enhancement for novice programming studentsCited 79 times
5. Go sideways: List of graphical user interface elementsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Focus stealingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Effective compiler error message enhancement for novice programming students

  Brett A. Becker, Graham Glanville, Ricardo Iwashima · 2016 · Computer Science Education · 79 citations

• Quantized Iterative Message Passing Decoders with Low Error Floor for LDPC Codes

  Xiaojie Zhang, Paul H. Siegel · 2014 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 73 citations

• Computer-based performance feedback: Effects of error message complexity on cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational outcomes

  Livia Kuklick, Samuel Greiff, Marlit Annalena Lindner · 2023 · Computers & Education · 50 citations

• Universally attainable error exponents for broadcast channels with degraded message sets

  J. Korner, A. Sgarro · 1980 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 44 citations

• Optimal Message Block Size for Computer Communications with Error Detection and Retransmission Strategies

  W. Chu · 1974 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 35 citations

• Synchronization with message embedded for generalized Lorenz chaotic circuits and its error analysis

  P. Liu, Kuang-Yow Lian · 2000 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications · 34 citations

• Error Exponents for Broadcast Channels With Degraded Message Sets

  Yonatan Kaspi, Neri Merhav · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 28 citations

• Affective-motivational effects of performance feedback in computer-based assessment: Does error message complexity matter?

  Livia Kuklick, Marlit Annalena Lindner · 2023 · Contemporary Educational Psychology · 26 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The Effect of Automated Error Message Feedback on Undergraduate Physics Students Learning Python: Reducing Anxiety and Building Confidence

  Tessa Charles, Carl Gwilliam · 2023 · Journal for STEM Education Research · 17 citations

• Framework for SQL Error Message Design: A Data-Driven Approach

  Toni Taipalus, Hilkka Grahn · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 10 citations

• Unified Cooperative Localization via Augmented Factor Graph and Error State Message Passing

  Jun Xiong, Xiang-peng Xie, Zhi Xiong · 2025 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 4 citations

• Effective REST APIs Testing with Error Message Analysis

  Lixin Xu, Huayao Wu, Zhenyu Pan · 2025 · Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering · 3 citations

• Rice Grain Effect and Impacts of Message Size and Error on Networked Control Systems

  Yue Liu, Yang Xiao, Tieshan Li · 2025 · IEEE Systems Journal · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Sad Macs, bombs, and other disastersTed Landau · 1993
• PET / CBM personal computer guideAdam Osborne · 1980
• 📕System 2000 messages and codesSAS Institute · 2000
• 📕Unix System V Release 3.2 Network Programmer's GuideAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1988
• Big Book of Autocorrect FailsTim Dedopulos · 2014
• Damn you, autocorrect!Lyndsey Saul · 2013
• 📕Sybase IQ 12.6Sybase, Inc · 2004
• Developing Windows Error MessagesBen Ezzell · 1998

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