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Before moving onto arrays, make sure students feel really confident about loops.

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  • Students have a really hard time with arrays! Because so much of what we do with arrays involves looping it is very important to cover loops first.
  • A common misconception students have with arrays is getting rows and columns backwards. When looping over arrays, mixing up these parameters can cause some very strange and confusing bugs.

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  • Content Misconceptions
  • CS 1
  • Intro Programming
  • Data Structures
  • Programming Concepts
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