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Encourage students to break up their Scratch scripts into smaller chunks to help them test and debug their code.

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  • This is a very valuable approach for students to take when debugging.
  • Check out Colleen’s YouTube video Tracking Tempo in Repeats for an example of how to do this with a complicated tempo-changing script.

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  • Scratch
  • Development Methods
  • Intro Programming
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Colleen Lewis' CS10K Scratch Webinar
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