Skip to main content
CS Teaching Tips

Main navigation

  • Browse All Tips
  • Tags
  • 3D
  • About
  • Rate Tips
  • Tip Sheets

Compare variables to gym scoreboards to help students understand them and how they can be used in a game.

Share Compare variables to gym scoreboards to help students understand them and how they can be used in a game. with FacebookShare Compare variables to gym scoreboards to help students understand them and how they can be used in a game. with Twitter
  • Just like with scoreboards, variables are a spot that can hold a value.
    • For example, with points, the value that the variable holds goes up.
    • In contrast, with lives, the value the variable holds goes down.

More about this tip

Tags

  • Meaningful and Relevant Content
  • Programming Concepts
External Source

Interview with Dylan Ryder

Other Tips By
Other Tips By Dylan Ryder

Similar tips

Provide a framework for talking about controversial topics, like ethical dilemmas, to help direct heated discussions remain productive and in-depth.
Demonstrate swapping variables' values by swapping the contents of two cups full of liquid; you need a third cup to swap the liquids just like you need a third, temporary, variable to swap the values.
Encourage students to develop solutions in their natural language before considering syntax to improve their general problem solving abilities.
  • CSTT Facebook
  • CSTT Twitter

For more information or to report a bug, contact us at admin@csteachingtips.org. Built with Bootstrap. Footer Icons by Mohammed Alyousfi. Powered by Drupal.

Privacy Policy

  • National Science Foundation
  • Sage Fox Group
  • Harvey Mudd College