Using a primary-school challenge in a third-year IT course

Simon

Programmable Lego Mindstorms robots are used as a challenge activity in competitions for schools, and in various capacities in university-level computing courses. We describe an assignment that we use in a third-year IT course, part of which is identical to one of the school- level challenge tasks. We explore the benefits of this assignment in our university course, and explain why it is legitimate to ‘challenge’ our final-year students with an exercise undertaken by children in primary school.

Cite as: Simon (2010). Using a primary-school challenge in a third-year IT course. In Proc. Twelfth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2010) Brisbane, Australia. CRPIT, 103. Clear, T. and Hamer, J. Eds., ACS. 147-154

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