Creating assignments is a difficult and time consuming part of teaching Computer Science. Nifty Assignments is a forum, operating at a very practical level, to promote the sharing of assignment ideas and assignment materials.Each presenter will introduce their assignment, give a quick demo, and describe its niche in the curriculum and its strengths and weaknesses. The presentations (and the descriptions below) merely introduce each assignment. For more detail, each assignment has its own web page with more detailed information and assignment materials such as handouts and data files to aid the adoption of the assignment. Information on participating in Nifty Assignments as well as all the assignment pages are available from our central page… http://cse.stanford.edu/nifty/

We identify the principles involved in designing effective programming assignments for CS 1/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.

We identify the principles involved in designing effective programming assignments for CS 1/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.

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