[Edu-sig] Intro and question: assignments/projects for year end

[Sheila King]

First of all, I want to thank everyone for all the suggestion, both on this list
and in e-mail. I'm going to try to get something specific together for my
students by Friday.

As for these comments below:

On Wed, 9 May 2001 23:53:42 EDT, HotToPot@aol.com  wrote about [Edu-sig] Intro
and question: assignments/projects for year end  :

:Don't ask them to face a blank page. 
:
:If its Game of Life, start them with functioning code and challenge 
:them to extend it in some fairly specific way.
:
:If its graphics, start with functioning code that draws lines, ask them to 
:draw
:boxes and circles.
:
:Even at high levels of programming, few people are asked to face the
:blank page.  One is  extending, optimizing, debugging, porting, etc.
:
:Give them something broken to fix. Plant a few bugs. 
:
:But don't ask them to face the blank page. 

I wasn't going to make the class all do the same project. I was going to let
them pick what they want to do. Last year I did this with the CMU Graphics
library, and it was a great success. However, in this scenario, it was mostly
necessary for them to "face a blank page". Well, let me qualify that: We did
have two "demo" programs for them to examine.

I'd like to thank Rob for suggesting the Useless Python site, as a reference. I
think you're right. That's a good source for samples and examples.


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Sheila King
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