Programs/Projects suggestions wanted
To all: I will be teaching an Introduction to Programming class to incoming college freshman (engineering and computer science students) using Python (and VPython) this fall. The class meets twice a week for 15 weeks. For most of these students, Python will be their first true programming language, and so the purpose of the class is to get them to understand how to design simple algorithms (i.e. input/calculate/output loops mostly) and translate those algorithms into programs or functions. The current language is "C" and most of these students fight the syntax all term without gaining any good programming skills. With this background, I would like some suggestions for programs/projects that these students would find interesting and/or fun. I have checked the archives and I will be including the "Game of Life". Other programs/projects include "Odd order Magic Squares", "Prime number sieves", and "word occurrences in Shakespeare's plays" along with a variety of simpler programs which lead to these projects. I will summarize any suggestions and report back to group later (anyone planning on attending SIG-CSE 2002?) Thank you for any help in this area. Howard Whitston Instructional Technology Specialist/Adjunct Professor Lawrence Technological University whitston@ltu.edu
We have quite a collection of novice challenges at Useless Python. There are hundreds of programming contest problems, our own Python Challenges (just ideas of neat things to do), and over 100 examples of working Python source code sent in by people learning the language. You should be able to find some appropriate material there: http://www.lowerstandard.com/python <-- Useless Python hopefully helpful, Rob Your one-stop shop for newbie source code! Useless Python: http://www.lowerstandard.com/python/ # -----Original Message----- # From: edu-sig-admin@python.org [mailto:edu-sig-admin@python.org]On # Behalf Of WHITSTON@ltu.edu # Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:24 AM # To: EDU-SIG@python.org # Subject: [Edu-sig] Programs/Projects suggestions wanted # # # To all: # # I will be teaching an Introduction to Programming class to # incoming college # freshman (engineering and computer science students) using Python (and # VPython) this fall. The class meets twice a week for 15 # weeks. For most of # these students, Python will be their first true programming # language, and so # the purpose of the class is to get them to understand how to # design simple # algorithms (i.e. input/calculate/output loops mostly) and # translate those # algorithms into programs or functions. The current language # is "C" and most # of these students fight the syntax all term without gaining any good # programming skills. # # With this background, I would like some suggestions for # programs/projects that # these students would find interesting and/or fun. I have # checked the archives # and I will be including the "Game of Life". Other # programs/projects include # "Odd order Magic Squares", "Prime number sieves", and "word # occurrences in # Shakespeare's plays" along with a variety of simpler programs # which lead to # these projects. # # I will summarize any suggestions and report back to group # later (anyone # planning on attending SIG-CSE 2002?) # # Thank you for any help in this area. # # Howard Whitston # Instructional Technology Specialist/Adjunct Professor # Lawrence Technological University # whitston@ltu.edu # # _______________________________________________ # Edu-sig mailing list # Edu-sig@python.org # http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
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