Development Methods

Teach students to use a system of inquiry, testing, and refining to debug their code, develop better coding habits, and deal with their frustration.

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Encourage students to modify and break provided code as a way to better understand the code and its underlying concepts.

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Reassure students that, over time, they will develop more accurate hypotheses when debugging.

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Misconception: Students get frustrated when they try to point their character to the left and it ends up flipped upside down because they don’t understand how changing the direction a sprite faces works in Scratch.

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Misconception: Students have difficulty transitioning from working with one sprite to multiple sprites in Scratch.

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Have students play the Gidget debugging game for practice debugging in an engaging environment.

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Misconception: Students have trouble understanding the difference between the “glide” and “go to” blocks in Scratch.

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Teach students to storyboard in Alice so they know a systematic process to follow when approaching challenging problems.

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Trace through example code in class to show and encourage students to debug effectively

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Misconception: Students believe that in a primitive assignment, x = y could be the equivalent of y = x; they think that the computer science “=” sign is the same as the mathematical “=” sign.

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