Poogle and the unknown-answer assignment: open-ended, sharable cs1 assignments

Authors:
Christopher C. D. Head;Steven A. Wolfman
Affiliations:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Most CS1 assignments are "known answer" assignments, requiring students to implement already-solved problems with no user but their grader and themselves. In this paper, we present Poogle: a freely available framework for designing unknown-answer assignments. Poogle assignments are open-ended, graphical, and multi-user. Poogle makes it easy for students to share their creations with their users: fellow students and the general public. We present two freely available CS1 assignments based on Poogle and discuss outcomes from use of one of them in a CS1 course.