Intro Programming

Teach students to storyboard in Alice so they know a systematic process to follow when approaching challenging problems.

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Misconception: Students create a new object when they only need to copy a reference.

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Misconception: Students believe that boolean values can only be used in conditionals.

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Misconception: Students believe that methods in different classes cannot have the same name.

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Misconception: Students think that it’s possible to write methods that add attributes to a Java class.

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Misconception: Students believe that reference pointers go both directions such that objects know what points to them.

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Misconception: Students think that two different variables cannot refer to the same object.

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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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