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Title: Using a primary-school challenge in a third-year IT course
Author/Creator: Simon
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Design Communication and Information Technology
Description: 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.
Relation: Twelfth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2010). Computing Education 2010: Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2010) (Brisbane, Qld 18-22 January, 2010) p. 147-153
Relation: http://elena.ait.ac.nz/homepages/ace2010/index.html
Date: 2010
Publisher: Australian Computer Society
Keyword(s): Lego Mindstorms; robotics; programming
Resource Type: conference paper
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935685
Identifier: ISBN:9781920682842
Identifier: ISSN:1445-1336

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