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I was about to argue in favor of using print as a debugging tool because it's easier for students to understand than a debugger. But I changed my mind: I think using a good debugger during lecture to show students what is happening to control flow and to variable values as some new concept executes may help students create a useful mental model. The side-...
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The reason that a simple text based interface is often used is that it is very simple to implement and run, and you don't have to spend time in the class teaching the student how to build a UI or GUI or other ways to interact with the program.
Littering the code with print statements is inefficient but is probably how a majority of coders learned how to ...
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