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Questions about motivating students to study, participate, or take interest in the field of Computer Science. This tag can be used to ask questions regarding motivating students in the context of Computer Science (e.g. motivating them to self-teach or to work with others etc. as well as motivating them to study Computer Science)

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Dealing with students who are overly motivated

It sort of sounds to me like those students don't have a good understanding of how to effectively study computer science and programming. In that case, it might be worth explicitly taking some time in …
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How to motivate game design/development students to do more than the minimum on homework

Something I wasn't sure about when I was reading your post was if the problem is whether the issue is if students lack motivation or if they lack the ability to succeed in your course. If 30% of your …
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How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s?

One idea is to take your students on a field trip to a "computer museum" of some sort, if your local area has one. Being able to physically look at and maybe even interact with machines can maybe help …
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Encourage students to learn and use advanced design

Based on my past experience working on a FRC team, my main advice would be to be very cautious about pushing students to use more advanced abstractions, design patterns, and whatnot. The issue is tha …
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