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Misconception: students think that when you assign a = b, there is no longer anything assigned to b because b empties its contents into a.

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  • When you ask a novice student "what happens to b when you assign a = b?", they may think that b no longer contains content as a result of giving it’s content to a.
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  • Content Misconceptions
  • CS 1
  • Intro Programming
  • Programming Concepts
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