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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 at 20:03
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Is it bad to force my students not to return early?
Mar 9 '18 at 18:32
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What advantages do students who learn how to touch type have?
Jun 18 '18 at 12:42
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Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?
Oct 30 '17 at 19:51
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Why do we count starting from zero?
Sep 3 '18 at 11:05
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Should I teach that 1 KB = 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes?
Mar 9 '18 at 15:30
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What is good age to start learning programming?
Nov 9 '18 at 12:28
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Assisting students with large programming assignments takes too long in class
Sep 7 '17 at 12:30
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How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?
Jan 21 '18 at 17:28
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What could be the possible advantages of teaching Scheme as first programming language?
Sep 2 '17 at 17:18
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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
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Teaching the tradeoffs of the foreach loop
Jul 14 '17 at 22:04
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How do you teach Big O to high schoolers with varying degrees of math exposure?
Mar 26 '18 at 13:12
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On studying Computer Science vs. Software Engineering to become a proficient coder
May 10 at 11:24
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How to give assignments that require heavy computational resources?
Apr 8 '18 at 15:21
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How can we teach good naming practice for students learning Java?
Apr 9 '18 at 13:52
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Teaching students that printf() is not the same as return
Oct 4 '17 at 18:00
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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
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Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming
Aug 9 '17 at 12:50
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Note-taking policy: laptops, or by hand?
Jun 27 '17 at 23:35
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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
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The Tao of TeaChing (Making Mistakes in Front of the Class)
Jul 27 '17 at 17:35
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Is there a better way to validate student learning?
May 9 '18 at 12:00
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How do you teach something when you don't know it yourself?
Feb 26 '18 at 18:08
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When does excessive collaboration become plagiarism?
Jan 30 '18 at 14:13
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What are good examples that actually motivate the study of recursion?
Jan 9 '18 at 21:51
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When a student submits a work that is a copy from a colleague, should you also punish the student that made the work?
Jul 11 '17 at 0:22
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A real world example for the divide and conquer method
Jul 21 at 14:34
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