Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Browse All Tips
  • Tags
  • About
  • Cards
  • Rate Tips
  • Tip Sheets
Humans, please do not click this link.

Reassure students that, over time, they will develop more accurate hypotheses when debugging.

Like(1292 Likes)
  • Debugging requires developing hypotheses about what went wrong and this is a very difficult skill to develop.
  • Reinforce that debugging is a process that involves failure.

Tags

  • Development Methods
  • Effective Encouragement
External Source
Interview with George Wang
Other Tips By
George Wang

Similar tips

Students have trouble seeing the connection between models (UMLs, etc.) and code so they only want to focus on coding, a problem when teaching modeling.
Encourage students to write the inside of the loop before the loop syntax to help students recognize the conditions necessary for iteration.
Step through an accumulator pattern on board to make clear how variables change within a while loop to help students understand this confusing topic.
  • CSTT Facebook
  • CSTT Twitter

For more information or to report a bug, contact us at admin@csteachingtips.org. Built with Bootstrap. Footer Icons by Mohammed Alyousfi. Powered by Drupal.

Privacy Policy

  • National Science Foundation
  • Sage Fox Group
  • Harvey Mudd College