The quest for excellence in designing CS1/CS2 assignments

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: Todd J. Feldman, Julie Zelenski
• Keywords: Education, Effective Programming Assignments, Engineering Exceptional Assignments, SIGCSE 1996, Successful Recursion Assignment