- Beginner students often assume you must put a semicolon at the end of each line. They might also put a semicolon at the ends of for loops, conditionals, and method declarations!
- This is really hard to debug, especially when beginning students don’t know to look for it.
- Help point this out to students since spending a long time fixing a small syntax problem isn’t a good use of their time.
- This error can be incredibly frustrating and discouraging for students.
- Some other languages that include similar syntax are C, C++ and PHP.