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Help students find bugs by drawing or writing out what their code does at each step.

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  • This will help students see exactly where their code is going wrong, so they know what part of their code needs to be fixed.
  • This can also help students understand how their programs run, so in the future debugging will be easier.

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  • CS 1
  • Intro Programming
  • Student-Faculty Interaction
  • Development Methods
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Teaching with Logo: Building Blocks for Learning by Molly Watt & Daniel Watt

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