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Misconception: when working with Booleans, students assume that false means incorrect and true means correct.

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  • By encouraging students to write appropriate test cases before writing actual code, they will build a better intuition for what an output of true or false actually means.

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Aiza Mbaye, Roxane Caires, Daniel Modell from CSNYC Tip-A-Thon.
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