Student Picker and Grouper

This project is introduced before students begin working with Lists and is then assigned as a pair programming project after work on the Lists curriculum is finished. I have used it with mostly Freshman students taking Beginning Computer Science and assigned it about halfway through the year.

Owen Ostrachen, of Duke Univeristy, deserves mention here. I saw him around 2002 use a version of a student picker in a workshop at SIGCSE. He was illustrating how such a program could facilitate more engagement in the classroom.  BYOB!/SNAP, which allows for easy broadcasting and image handling, facilitates this to become a student project for beginning students in and of itself. 

 

I have attached instructions(doc and pdf) as well as an example of the Student Picker.

You can comment on this lesson or suggest changes either below or at the google doc I have created.

 

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