The quest for excellence in designing CS1/CS2 assignments

  • Authors:
  • Todd J. Feldman;Julie D. Zelenski

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Stanford University;Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '96 Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We identify the principles involved in designing effective programming assignments for CS1/CS2. Through a case study of a particularly successful recursion assignment, we establish several prerequisites that must be present in the foundation of a potential assignment and discuss techniques for engineering exceptional assignments through changes to their more malleable components.