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How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?

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How do you teach something when you don't know it yourself?

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Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming

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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?

answered Apr 10, 2018 at 15:40

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Should CS students be doing their tests on paper?

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What controversies in computer science education exist today?

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If a program does not compile, should it get a mark of zero?

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Real life examples of 0-indexing

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Why did the percentage of CS bachelor's degrees going to women peak in 1984?

answered Jul 23, 2017 at 18:11

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Why isn't there one language to use instead of different programming languages?

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How to teach the importance of indentation

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How do you deal with Lone Rangers in group projects?

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Why is computer science hard?

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When mentoring individuals, teach clean coding and simple/effective thinking or let them do it their way?

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Problematic student at a very high level

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Teaching algorithmic thinking without a programming language

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Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?

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What to tell students that plagiarised their programming assignment?

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How to respond to the two-handed approach to swapping

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How can we teach good naming practice for students learning Java?

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What are good examples that actually motivate the study of recursion?

answered Jan 9, 2018 at 21:40

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Why teach C using scanf without talking about command line arguments?

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What's the benefit of prohibiting the use of techniques/language constructs that have not been taught?

answered Sep 13, 2019 at 23:00

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What could be the possible advantages of teaching Scheme as first programming language?

answered Sep 2, 2017 at 19:32

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Why do we count starting from zero?

answered Sep 3, 2018 at 3:47

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Should teachers enforce standardization of spacing and braces?

answered Jul 6, 2017 at 22:01

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How do I teach "math equality" vs. "CS assignment" vs. "CS equality logic operator"?

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How do you make your CS lectures more interesting?

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How to teach students not to use jump statements

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Problems with students stuck in web-browser and what to do about it

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How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?

How do you teach something when you don't know it yourself?

Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming

What are healthy, productive ways to encourage students to progress to more advanced constructs as opposed to staying with the familiar?

Should CS students be doing their tests on paper?

What controversies in computer science education exist today?

If a program does not compile, should it get a mark of zero?

Real life examples of 0-indexing

Why did the percentage of CS bachelor's degrees going to women peak in 1984?

Why isn't there one language to use instead of different programming languages?

How to teach the importance of indentation

How do you deal with Lone Rangers in group projects?

Why is computer science hard?

When mentoring individuals, teach clean coding and simple/effective thinking or let them do it their way?

Problematic student at a very high level

Teaching algorithmic thinking without a programming language

Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?

What to tell students that plagiarised their programming assignment?

How to respond to the two-handed approach to swapping

How can we teach good naming practice for students learning Java?

What are good examples that actually motivate the study of recursion?

Why teach C using scanf without talking about command line arguments?

What's the benefit of prohibiting the use of techniques/language constructs that have not been taught?

What could be the possible advantages of teaching Scheme as first programming language?

Why do we count starting from zero?

Should teachers enforce standardization of spacing and braces?

How do I teach "math equality" vs. "CS assignment" vs. "CS equality logic operator"?

How do you make your CS lectures more interesting?

How to teach students not to use jump statements

Problems with students stuck in web-browser and what to do about it