Using a primary-school challenge in a third-year IT course

Authors:
Simon
Affiliations:
University of Newcastle, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 103
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Programmable Lego Mindstorms robots are used as a challenge activity in competitions for schools, and in various capacities in university-level computing courses. We describe an assignment that we use in a third-year IT course, part of which is identical to one of the school-level challenge tasks. We explore the benefits of this assignment in our university course, and explain why it is legitimate to 'challenge' our final-year students with an exercise undertaken by children in primary school.