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Require that students have paper and pencil on hand when they code to emphasize the importance of planning before writing code.

  • Tell students "A few minutes of planning can save you hours and hours of programming!"

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Frame programming as learning a set of tools that allows you to build anything you can imagine.
Misconception: Students may have trouble identifying errors in their code that cause elements to disappear from the page.
When explaining code to the class, project your code and use a tablet to draw on top of it. Ask students for debugging suggestions to make them more comfortable finding bugs and to show them that all programmers, even you, make mistakes.

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