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Meet with students one-on-one to help them develop a Java class in order to clarify basic concepts and increase their confidence with object-oriented programming.
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Allow students to resubmit their first few assignments for the course so they can master basic concepts and be rewarded for their persistence.
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Emphasize that Scratch is REAL coding; this lets students know that programming in educational languages like Scratch or Python is valuable even though these languages aren’t commonly used in industry.
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Misconception: students think that when you assign a = b, there is no longer anything assigned to b because b empties its contents into a.
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When explaining code to the class, project your code and use a tablet to draw on top of it. Ask students for debugging suggestions to make them more comfortable finding bugs and to show them that all programmers, even you, make mistakes.
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Use Python’s map function to introduce students to loops early on, because the map function is an provides an easy transition to loops.
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Use visual depictions of programmatic concepts, such as recursion, to improve students’ understanding of the concept and reinforce students’ intuition about the concept.
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Have students who are transitioning from Python to Java explore the “From Python to Java” website to show them the differences between the two languages.
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