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

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Emphasize that Scratch is REAL coding; this lets students know that programming in educational languages like Scratch or Python is valuable even though these languages aren’t commonly used in industry.
Encourage students to answer one another’s questions in lab and office hours to help both confident and confused students better understand the course concepts.
Pass out the grading rubric when you share the class assignments so students understand how they will be assessed.

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