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Is it better to lie to students or to be pedantic when teaching Intro CS?
May 7 '18 at 22:50
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How bad is a Computer Science course that doesn't teach Design Patterns?
Feb 16 '19 at 20:03
141
Is it bad to force my students not to return early?
Mar 9 '18 at 18:32
95
What advantages do students who learn how to touch type have?
Jun 18 '18 at 12:42
70
Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?
Oct 30 '17 at 19:51
62
Why do we count starting from zero?
Sep 3 '18 at 11:05
55
Why is computer science hard?
Nov 16 '20 at 22:07
51
Should I teach that 1 kB = 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes?
Mar 9 '18 at 15:30
43
What is good age to start learning programming?
Nov 9 '18 at 12:28
39
How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?
Jan 21 '18 at 17:28
39
Assisting students with large programming assignments takes too long in class
Sep 7 '17 at 12:30
34
What is the point of teaching coding and robotics to kids as young as six years old?
Nov 28 '19 at 13:40
34
What could be the possible advantages of teaching Scheme as first programming language?
Sep 2 '17 at 17:18
30
What are the advantages/disadvantages of teaching how to implement Nodes, Linked Lists, Stacks, and Queues before showing built-in implementations?
Apr 26 '18 at 13:35
29
What is the best way to teach JavaScript functions to middle schoolers?
Dec 20 '19 at 1:31
28
Teaching the tradeoffs of the foreach loop
Jul 14 '17 at 22:04
24
How do you teach Big O to high schoolers with varying degrees of math exposure?
Mar 26 '18 at 13:12
23
On studying Computer Science vs. Software Engineering to become a proficient coder
May 10 '19 at 11:24
21
Note-taking policy: laptops, or by hand?
Jun 27 '17 at 23:35
19
How can we teach good naming practice for students learning Java?
Apr 9 '18 at 13:52
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How to give assignments that require heavy computational resources?
Apr 8 '18 at 15:21
18
Teaching students that printf() is not the same as return
Oct 4 '17 at 18:00
16
Interesting Programming Exercises to Teach Inheritance?
May 1 '18 at 17:23
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How can we motivate students to review each other's code?
Aug 29 '17 at 14:32
16
Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming
Aug 9 '17 at 12:50
15
Is there a better way to validate student learning?
May 9 '18 at 12:00
15
What are healthy, productive ways to encourage students to progress to more advanced constructs as opposed to staying with the familiar?
Apr 10 '18 at 14:52
15
When does excessive collaboration become plagiarism?
Jan 30 '18 at 14:13
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In what branch of science does technology belong?
Jun 4 '20 at 13:14
14
The Tao of TeaChing (Making Mistakes in Front of the Class)
Jul 27 '17 at 17:35
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