A Case Study of Puzzles Solving Applied to Programming Practice
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In this paper, we report a case study of applying puzzle solving as a programming practice. There are many students,who have attended computer programming language courses, have had difficulties in accomplishing the course assignments.It is because just following and citing the programming language course materials is not sufficient for constructing computerprograms. Many professional developers have stated that computer programming for small problems is an art of puzzle solving, where developing enterprise-size computer programming projects involves architectural insights which are alreadydealt in software engineering literatures. Following those backgrounds, we have explored the applicability of puzzle solvingin a C++ object oriented programming course and have reported the results. The experimental results show that puzzle solving is effective to the students who are interested in computer programming and have at least beginner-level knowledgeand expertise, but it turned out that puzzle solving assignments still does not draw much attention of the students who arenot seriously interested in computer programming.
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In this paper, we report a case study of applying puzzle solving as a programming practice. There are many students,who have attended computer programming language courses, have had difficulties in accomplishing the course assignments.It is because just following and citing the programming language course materials is not sufficient for constructing computerprograms. Many professional developers have stated that computer programming for small problems is an art of puzzle solving, where developing enterprise-size computer programming projects involves architectural insights which are alreadydealt in software engineering literatures. Following those backgrounds, we have explored the applicability of puzzle solvingin a C++ object oriented programming course and have reported the results. The experimental results show that puzzle solving is effective to the students who are interested in computer programming and have at least beginner-level knowledgeand expertise, but it turned out that puzzle solving assignments still does not draw much attention of the students who arenot seriously interested in computer programming.
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