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What is a Logic Error ?

A logic error always does the following It allows the program to run (or at least to start). It leads to unexpected results . The program might seem to work fine 99% of the time, but during that other 1% of the time, something weird occurs. Example of a Logic Error in Penjee: As you can see from the above animation, we … Continue reading What is a Logic Error ? →

Penjee Teacher tip : Collaborate with students

One of the features of new teacher dashboard is the ability of teachers to  directly collaborate with a student account–which simply means that a teacher can “enter into” any account and leave comments/suggestions inside an individual student’s code editor (you can use this if a student is stumped and you want to give a hint) Step1 ) Go … Continue reading Penjee Teacher tip : Collaborate with students →

What is Pseudo Code ?

Pseucode is a way to express what your code should do, without using a particular language’s syntax. In our assignment,  To the water, for instance, pictured below: We provide the students with the following Pseudocode [crayon-66291cff900b2105114147/] As you can see, there is no Python syntax included in that snippet. Instead, we are expressing what the code … Continue reading What is Pseudo Code ? →