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Suggest that students use the “when green flag clicked” block when creating clones in Scratch to avoid exponential cloning.

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  • If students create clones with another block, like "when spacebar pressed", these clones will also create clones when the spacebar is pressed, so the total number of clones increases by a factor of 2 every time the spacebar is pressed. This is generally unwanted behavior.

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  • Content Misconceptions
  • Scratch
  • Intro Programming
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Learn to Program with Scratch by Majed Marji

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