Development Methods

Use programming spreadsheet functions as an introduction to programming to give students a simple but powerful mechanism for writing basic programs.

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Have students write out test cases and their prediction for what their code will do in class before running it to teach them the practice of analyzing their code first.

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Have students write a program that generates a collage of images and/or sounds. This will help them practice image manipulation and function decomposition.

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Create a programmatic contract, a document that states students will break an assignment into smaller components, for a large programming project to give students experience with modular design.

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Emphasize the importance of developing a consistent naming schema, especially for booleans, as a part of good style.

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Pick a student to live-code during class to show other students that their peers have many of the same strengths and weaknesses that they do when coding.

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Have students put their workspace on a USB drive or external hard drive so that they can continue to work on their assignments on any device in any location.

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Trace through nested conditionals with students because nesting makes it difficult for them to track which lines of code get executed when.

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Use the Online Python Tutor tool to trace through code and help students visualize what the code is doing.

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Use Parson’s Puzzles to help students engage with a concept without writing code or experiencing frustrating syntax errors.

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