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Emphasize the difference between terms that may have a similar meaning in English, but not in code.

  • For example, the constructs if and while are an important to draw attention to.

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Spend extra time covering these three topics students have a really hard time with in Java: references and primitives, inheritance, and nested loops.
Create boolean variables to use as the condition when introducing if statement to highlight for students that the condition is any expression that evaluates to true or false.
Ask students "do you know in advance how many times you'll need to go through the loop?" when deciding between using a for or a while loop, because this is a good rule of thumb for them to use.

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