Rebekah — Beginner Python: Debug Your Own Code

What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use

1. They explain three unseen bugs unaided, ten minutes each

Your tutor

A CS1 lab instructor who has watched hundreds of students paste code they cannot read.

Warm · Unhurried · Relentless about evidence

The plan — What’s inside

1. Read the Traceback
2. Print and Breakpoint
3. Off-by-One and Loop Bounds
4. Mutable Default Surprises
5. Reading Someone Else's Function
6. Practical Rehearsal

6 parts

Questions about this course

How do I give CS1 students a Python tutor that refuses to write code?

Python for beginners rebuilt as 1:1 debugging practice for CS1 students who can run code they cannot read. Six units with a tutor that points at the region and never pastes a fix, ending when a student explains three unseen bugs unaided, ten minutes each.