A Guide on Empowering Students to Develop a Coding Mindset

The most important skillset you can learn when coding is not the syntax of the specific programming language, but rather the “coding mindset”. This chapter outlines practical suggestions and approaches for ensuring your teaching goes beyond syntax and focuses on developing students’ mindset to allow them to effectively code in other languages in the future.

This chapter is for you if you are embarking on teaching your first programming course and want to develop the course beyond the syntax you might be teaching. Experienced programmers will also find the chapter interesting as a source for reflection on their own “coding mindset” and how it has developed.