Over time I’ve developed a particular technique for giving coding assignments to my computer science students.<\/p>\n
When it’s time to give the students a coding assignment, I first implement the assignment myself, going from the course notes that I wrote for them in the most recent lectures. Then I decide which parts of the code I think they should be responsible for.<\/p>\n
Depending on how advanced the students are, I can give them more or less of the code to do. For the parts that I’m not expecting them to implement, I just leave in my own code.<\/p>\n
Then I add comments describing the parts I want them to implement, which turns that part of the code into a kind of step by step algorithm. Finally, I remove all of the code that I wrote for those parts.<\/p>\n
It’s a kind of reverse engineering approach to building coding assignments. And it seems to work really well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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