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Use your own mistakes to teach students what mistakes are common and how to identify them.

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  • Any mistake that you make is likely to be one your students will also make.
  • Set a precedent of making intentional mistakes in your code and letting your students find them so they know what to look out for. Also, it trains students to read code critically: an important skill for debugging.

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