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Students may have an easier time learning about conditionals when using a visual programming language like Scratch.

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  • It may be that visual languages allow students to focus more productively on the meaning of the program elements by removing much of their syntactic difficulty.

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  • Scratch
  • Intro Programming
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From How Programming Environment Shapes Perception, Learning and Goals: Logo vs. Scratch, by Colleen Lewis

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Create a handout that translates code in Scratch to code in Logo in order to show students that they are capable of writing text-based code because they already program in Scratch.
Tell young students that computer programming is simply writing rules for a computer to follow, similar to bossing around a younger sibling, to help them connect programming to everyday life.
Choose an appropriate IDE that fits course goals. For AP CS, use an IDE that doesn’t autofill to give students more practice writing code on their own
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