@futurebird
Wonderful. I would suggest a small change to 4. Even though the rest of your message explains how to become a great programmer, students may get hyper-fixated on #4. They may think "oh I'm just not a great programmer" before even reading ahead, or even after. So may I suggest something like: "Finding and fixing the errors is an essential step towards becoming a great programmer." This frames it as a process from the get-go, rather than a binary.