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Teaching Java Basics with Games and Toys

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We all love to be creative in our class presentations, and toys and games can bring life to the class.

Binary Circles
Computer science students should understand binary, octal, and hexadecimal number systems. This is not always a topic that students have been exposed to in previous courses (math or computer science).
  Binary Circles

Snap Circuits
A tool that encourages students to physically experience logic design and gain an appreciation of the low-level components of computers.
  Snap Circuits

Paper Folding
This puzzle may be used to demonstrate while loops, exponential growth, and analysis of log N and N log N algorithms.
  Paper Folding and Exponential Growth

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