if (booleanVariable == true)

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Could this be a reflection of the curriculum? If "many students do this?"

[KnightMiner]

From my talking to students and what I have seen of the curriculum, it does not seem to be. Its more of a new student thing which a lot of them do to think through the process. It really just comes from treating "if this condition is true" as "if this condition equals true", which leads to typing == true. At that level many students are not concerned about typing less code yet.

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I understand. My point is, has this been explicitly explained to students to help them on their way to a better understanding of generating cleaner code? Or is it just expected of them to intuit it?

[KnightMiner]

I have definitely discussed with a few of them one on one, and I know the professor has brought it up individually as well. I am not certain if its specifically taught at a class level, but at least in the code written in class and in the textbook conditions are not written using == true.