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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 a method can only be called once on a given object.

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Misconception: Students think that both the IF and the ELSE cases of a conditional are executed every single time a conditional runs.

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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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Have pairs of students aim to achieve the same patterns on Battleship boards to teach them the precision necessary for algorithmic design.

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Use in-class clicker questions to identify students struggling at the beginning of the course so you can reach out to them.

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Have students find the best method of sorting a group of unknown weights to teach them about sorting algorithms.

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Have students act as elements walking through a network to sort themselves to teach students about how Sorting Networks function.

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Use physical activities to demonstrate sorting algorithms and help students build intuition about how these algorithms work.

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Have students play a game of Telephone and trace the path of a message to introduce how computers create phylogenetic trees.

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