Lesson Plan 1.05: Quiz & Debugging

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to...

• Demonstrate their understanding of key concepts covered up to this point
• Define and identify: debugging, syntax errors
• Analyze and respond to error messages

Materials/Preparation

• Quiz
• Associated Reading - section 1.3 of Book
• Take the quiz and create a scoring rubric
• Look through debugging web tutorial and example code to prepare students for analyzing and responding to errors

Pacing Guide

Instructor's Notes

1. Welcome and Review
   • Ask students for any final questions before passing out the quiz.
2. Quiz
3. Debugging Activity
   • Explain to students that you will now be exploring how to read analyze and respond to errors in code.
     • Present students with a longer piece of code that will produce an error (e.g. code). Ask them to read through it and predict what will be printed out.
     • Remind students that when reading through code we go line by line, as if we are the interpreter.
     • Run the code, display the stack trace, and have students analyze the error message reported.
     • Explain that, much like in Snap, debugging is the process of tracking and fixing errors in your code.
   • Direct students to work through and complete this web tutorial on debugging

Accomodation/Differentiation

Make sure to provide extended time on the quiz for any students that have that requirement in an IEP or 504 plan.