Nifty Assignment

摘要

I can worry about the strategy of my syllabus, and I can fret over my lectures. Nonetheless, I am always struck that what my students really learn and enjoy in the course depends very much on the assignments. Great assignments are hard to dream up and time-consuming to develop. With that in mind, the Nifty Assignments session is all about promoting and sharing the ideas and concrete materials of successful assignments Each presenter will introduce their assignment, give a quick demo, and describe its niche in the curriculum and its strengths and weaknesses. The presentations (and the descriptions below) merely introduce each assignment. A key part of Nifty Assignments is the mundane but vital role of distributing the materials - handouts, data files, starter code - that make each assignment ready to adopt. The Nifty Assignments home page, http:/ifty.stanford.edu, gathers all the assignments and makes them and their support materials freely available.