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

Jan 22, 2018

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

Feb 26, 2018

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Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming

Aug 9, 2017

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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, 2018

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What controversies in computer science education exist today?

Dec 15, 2021

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

Oct 30, 2017

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Advances in CS appropriate for CS1 and CS2 made by female computer scientists

Jul 10, 2017

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

Jan 9, 2018

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Teaching the humble for loop

Jul 13, 2017

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How do I convince my students that visual programming is real programming?

Jun 20, 2017

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Should a student be allowed to try to answer a question only a few times?

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How can I discourage poor design while using automatic grading of submissions?

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