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Standard tutorials have too much information to be appropriate in introductory courses; try using excerpts from them or creating your own.

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Teach hierarchical task analysis using Requirement Cards to sort through 100 requirements engineers have created for a robot cleaning up a nuclear disaster.

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Build a paper airplane instead of the PB&J exercise for a less messy, more extensible algorithms introduction activity.

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Give students, especially younger kids, “movement breaks” so that they don’t have to sit still and stare at a computer for too long.

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When learning in a playful context, students are less likely to be frustrated by difficulty or failure.

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Have some students pretend to be robots while other students program them to complete simple tasks to practice debugging and to emphasize the importance of coding precisely.

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Use examples that have nothing to do with computers to introduce new CS concepts in an accessible way.

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DrJava, the Java interpreter, gives students an interactive environment to practice testing strategies in.

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Demonstrate swapping variables' values by swapping the contents of two cups full of liquid; you need a third cup to swap the liquids just like you need a third, temporary, variable to swap the values.

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To avoid frustrating students, give them definitions of common terms and ways of fixing common error messages in advance.

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