Emphasize that students’ personal interest in CS is more important than just getting good grades in CS classes for determining their success in CS.
- Students may cut corners on assignments in order to get good grades (e.g., by memorizing how to do things for a test and then forgetting those things after the test).
- Unfortunately, the corners they cut may involve things they are actually interested in. For instance, they may opt to not do some parts of assignments because they can still get a good grade, even if they find that assignment interesting.