Misconception: Students don’t understand that the right side of an assignment statement is executed before the assignment. They think that variables store unresolved equations.
Misconception: Students believe that when they assign a = b, they are copying b into a rather than making a point to b.
Misconception: Students think that when they create a new variable within a function, that function will automatically return that variable’s value when executed.
Misconception: Students think that it’s possible to write methods that add attributes to a Java class.
Misconception: Students believe that reference pointers go both directions such that objects know what points to them.