@inproceedings{7f5b0b3381c44ee9b88945f9b32df435,
title = "Nifty assignments",
abstract = "I suspect that students learn more from our programming assignments than from our much sweated-over lectures, with their slide transitions, clip art, and joke attempts. A great assignment is deliberate about where the student hours go, concentrating the student's attention on material that is interesting and useful. The best assignments solve a problem that is topical and entertaining, providing motivation for the whole stack of work. Unfortunately, creating great programming assignments is both time consuming and error prone. The Nifty Assignments special session is all about promoting and sharing the ideas and ready-To-use materials of successful assignments. 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. A key part of Nifty Assignments is the mundane but vital role of distributing the materials - handouts, data files, starter code - that make each assignment ready to adopt. The Nifty Assignments home page, http://nifty.stanford.edu, gathers all the assignments and makes them and their support materials freely available. If you have an assignment that works well and would be of interest to the CSE community, please consider applying to present at Nifty Assignments. See the nifty.stanford.edu home page for more information.",
keywords = "Assignments, Education, Examples, Homeworks, Library, Nifty, Pedagogy, Repository",
author = "Nick Parlante and Julie Zelenski and Baker Franke and Arvind Bhusnurmath and Karen Her and Kristen Gee and Eric Manley and Timothy Urness and Marvin Zhang and Brian Hou and John DeNero and Josh Hug and Kevin Wayne",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.; 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, SIGCSE 2016 ; Conference date: 02-03-2016 Through 05-03-2016",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1145/2839509.2844678",
language = "English (US)",
series = "SIGCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "588--589",
booktitle = "SIGCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education",
}