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Ben I.
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98 votes
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How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?

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

59 votes
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Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming

55 votes

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

54 votes

What controversies in computer science education exist today?

54 votes

Should CS students be doing their tests on paper?

51 votes

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

48 votes

Real life examples of 0-indexing

46 votes

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

42 votes

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

41 votes
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How to teach the importance of indentation

38 votes

Why is computer science hard?

38 votes

How do you deal with Lone Rangers in group projects?

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

35 votes
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Problematic student at a very high level

33 votes
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Teaching algorithmic thinking without a programming language

30 votes

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

29 votes

What to tell students that plagiarised their programming assignment?

27 votes
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How to respond to the two-handed approach to swapping

27 votes

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

26 votes

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

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

24 votes

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

24 votes

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

23 votes

Why do we count starting from zero?

22 votes

Should teachers enforce standardization of spacing and braces?

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

20 votes
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How do you make your CS lectures more interesting?

20 votes
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How to teach students not to use jump statements

19 votes

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

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