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Nifty Assignments

Published: 08 March 2017 Publication History

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I suspect that students learn more from our programming assignments than from our much sweated-over lectures, with their slide transitions, clip art, and joke attempts. A great assignment is deliberate about where the student hours go, concentrating the student's attention on material that is interesting and useful. The best assignments solve a problem that is topical and entertaining, providing motivation for the whole stack of work. Unfortunately, creating great programming assignments is both time consuming and error prone. The Nifty Assignments special session is all about promoting and sharing the ideas and ready-to-use materials of successful assignments.

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SIGCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
March 2017
838 pages
ISBN:9781450346986
DOI:10.1145/3017680
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Published: 08 March 2017

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  1. assignments
  2. education
  3. examples
  4. homeworks
  5. library
  6. nifty
  7. pedagogy
  8. repository

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  • (2019)Open Piping: Towards an Open Visual Workflow EnvironmentEnd-User Development10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_14(183-190)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2019
  • (2017)A KERNEL OF TRUTHThe light is better here (and that's okay)ACM Inroads10.1145/30782978:2(14-14)Online publication date: 16-May-2017

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