Intro Programming

As a debugging technique, have students write out their programs in their spoken language and compare their description to the code in order to find bugs.

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Help students find bugs by drawing or writing out what their code does at each step.

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Talk through your code as you write it so students learn how to approach problems.

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Teach the concept of a variable’s scope in Scratch by explaining the difference between “For this sprite only” and “For all sprites.”

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Use the "'build your own block'" feature in Scratch 2.0 to teach "bottom-up" or "top-down" processes for breaking up problems.

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Encourage students to use Create Your Own Block to store procedures in Scratch to help ease debugging.

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Suggest that students use the “when green flag clicked” block when creating clones in Scratch to avoid exponential cloning.

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Use Practice-It as supplementary Java problems for an introductory programming course to give students more practice.

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Use Snap! as a more advanced alternative to Scratch in an introductory programming course.

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Use CodingBat problems to supplement Java and Python curricula to give students more practice.

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