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Ask students to identify useless or unnecessary lines of code to assess their understanding of functions.

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Require that students have paper and pencil on hand when they code to emphasize the importance of planning before writing code.
Create a programmatic contract, a document that states students will break an assignment into smaller components, for a large programming project to give students experience with modular design.
Have students break their code into smaller pieces to find out where the bug might be.

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