@futurebird I've seen this too. Even in one-on-one instruction. Errors cause the students to panic and jump around quickly without stopping to think. Teaching students to stop and take a breath can be helpful. Sometimes the problem is the students are trying to learn by rote and don't have a mental model of what the code is doing, which takes a lot of time to address.

@petealexharris @futurebird @wakame maybe counterintuitive, but I've found that human communication skills are often helpful in learning and understanding programming. Example: "error on line 32" means the interpreter got confused on line 32. Maybe because of line 32 or maybe because there was a miscommunication earlier.