Balance students’ interest in immediate gratification (writing code) with preparation for the AP CS exam by having students work on and off the computer during every meeting.
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- One potential model for being on and off machines is as follows:
- Be off the computer, doing kinesthetic activities to get them out of their chairs
- Be on the computer (writing code and programs in Eclipse)
- Be off the computer, writing syntactically correct code on paper without the help of an IDE
- You can also take a few detours throughout the course to explore other languages or topics not covered on the AP exam.