Nifty Assignments

Parlante, Nick; Zelenski, Julie; DeNero, John; Allsman, Christopher; Perumpail, Tiffany; Arya, Rahul; Gupta, Kavi; Cang, Catherine; Bitutsky, Paul; Moughan, Ryan; Malan, David J.; Yu, Brian; Peck, Evan M.; Albing, Carl; Wayne, Kevin; Schwarz, Keith

doi:10.1145/3328778.3372574

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“…Each presenter thus provides unique expertise and perspective on developing web apps, which will help accommodate the variety of backgrounds that we expect participants will bring to the tutorial. Collectively, the presenters developed web apps for 7 programming assignments in a Java-based CS2 introductory programming course at an R1 university: 4 Nifty Assignments [3,4,6,7], 2 assignments from other CS1 and CS2 courses [8,9], and 2 original assignments.…”

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confidence: 99%

Nifty Web Apps

Lin¹,

Guha²,

Spaniac³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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While many students now interact with web apps across a variety of smart devices, the vast majority of our Nifty Assignments [5] still present traditional user interfaces such as console input/output and desktop GUI. In this tutorial session, participants will learn to build simple web apps for programming assignments that execute student-written code to dynamically respond to user interactions resulting in a more modern app experience. Our approach requires up to 75% less code than similar desktop GUI apps while requiring few (if any) modifications to existing assignments. Instructors and students alike can run and modify these web apps on their own computers or deploy their apps online for access from any smart device at no cost. The tutorial presents examples from CS1 and CS2 courses in Python and Java, but the ideas apply generally. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Computing education.

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Section: Objectivementioning

confidence: 99%