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Use this tag for questions about best practices in the classroom. This is an educational term, and does not refer to best practices in coding style. (Instead, see the coding-conventions tag). Some questions with this tag ask for advice on comparing the advisability of two or more possible teaching practices, for example.

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Research into the use of symbol names, in programming, and how it affects learning

Separate the actual solution, from the code As you've probably identified, the underlying issue is not that the names are incomprehensible or that the students lack memory in remembering what 4 sim …
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Should I teach that 1 kB = 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes?

The other answers all give solid reasons for teaching that both exist and how badly messed up the current situation is. This is important, but it does not clarify what the students should prefer to us …
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