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Remind students that it’s better for time management and project outcomes to get code reviewed after each small change is made.

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  • If students make a lot of changes before testing, it is harder to keep track of what was changed. This can make debugging more time consuming and difficult, because they will often not know where their program is wrong or why their code isn't working.

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"So you want a code review... " by Ellen Spertus, under "Keep it simple"

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