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Misconception: Students believe that reference pointers go both directions such that objects know what points to them.

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  • Explain to students that objects only know what objects they are pointing towards, not what points towards them.
    • Another way to think of this is that reference pointers are arrows that only point in one direction.

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  • CS 1
  • Intro Programming
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"Visual program simulation in introductory programming education" by Juha Sorva.

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