Explore students’ syntax errors to reveal their misconceptions.

  • For instance, students may type books.title[i] instead of books[i].title
    • This is an error where they are trying to go through an array but instead are trying to remove an item from a non-thing.
    • It demonstrates that a student may not fully understand what can be indexed and what cannot.

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