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Emphasize that it’s never too late to get help.

  • Asking for help is a way to gain new and better comprehension.
  • Encourage students to take pride in gaining new understanding.

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When explaining code to the class, project your code and use a tablet to draw on top of it. Ask students for debugging suggestions to make them more comfortable finding bugs and to show them that all programmers, even you, make mistakes.
Reassure students that, over time, they will develop more accurate hypotheses when debugging.
Seek out others to be part of your mentees’ mentoring team to ensure they have access to a wide network of mentors that can relate to and provide support for the wide variety of situations they’ll encounter.

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