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Go beyond prescribed course content to teach students about additional tools and skills they need to be successful.

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  • Useful tools that may not be explicitly part of the curriculum:
    • debugging
    • language-specific syntax (Unix in particular)
    • breaking down a problem into bite-size pieces
    • how to use a coding environment like Eclipse

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