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Spend extra time covering these three topics students have a really hard time with in Java: references and primitives, inheritance, and nested loops.

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  • It is important to check in with students and add additional exercises as necessary to ensure they truly understand references and primitives, inheritance, and nested loops.

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  • CS 1
  • Intro Programming
  • Java
  • Programming Concepts
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