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Encourage students to step away from buggy code and think about the big picture as a part of the debugging process.

  • Have students think about the goal at the highest level and work their way back to the code.

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Empathize with students who struggled to get their code working, these students may not be ready to think about how to advance the design of their program; suggesting they refactor their code immediately after it finally runs can be discouraging.
Before class, create a glossary of coding symbols on the board to help students verbalize their code during class discussions and oral exercises.
Remind students how important creating proposals and design documents is for efficiently writing good code in less time.

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