Comment Re:Absolutely not. (Score 1) 767
Be aware that this paper has been fairly thoroughly discredited. See Richard Bornat, Saeed Dehnadi, and Simon. 2008. "Mental models, consistency and programming aptitude". In "Proceedings of the tenth conference on Australasian computing education - Volume 78 (ACE '08)", http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf