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Students may have an easier time learning about conditionals when using a visual programming language like Scratch.

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  • It may be that visual languages allow students to focus more productively on the meaning of the program elements by removing much of their syntactic difficulty.

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  • Scratch
  • Intro Programming
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From How Programming Environment Shapes Perception, Learning and Goals: Logo vs. Scratch, by Colleen Lewis

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Remind students to spend lots of time carefully reading the free-response questions on the AP CS A exam to prepare them for this portion of the exam.
Let students solve problems the long, hard, intuitive way first to motivate the use of more advanced Scratch blocks that can help them solve problems in a shorter, faster, more flexible way.
Point out Scratch’s built-in variables before students create their own variables so that students become familiar with variable-related blocks.

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