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Poogle and the unknown-answer assignment: open-ended, sharable cs1 assignments

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Christopher C. D. Head,

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SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1352135.1352183

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

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Most CS1 assignments are "known answer" assignments, requiring students to implement already-solved problems with no user but their grader and themselves. In this paper, we present Poogle: a freely available framework for designing unknown-answer assignments. Poogle assignments are open-ended, graphical, and multi-user. Poogle makes it easy for students to share their creations with their users: fellow students and the general public. We present two freely available CS1 assignments based on Poogle and discuss outcomes from use of one of them in a CS1 course.

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March 2008

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DOI:10.1145/1352135

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Georgia Institute of Technology

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 40, Issue 1
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