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Show students where logic symbols - like pipe - are located on the keyboard so that they don’t struggle to find them.

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  • The pipes for OR, ||, can elude a lot of students.
  • Sometimes English keyboards don’t even have the pipe symbol and you’ll have to demonstrate how to find and insert special characters.

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