A sports day for programming

Ansgar Fehnker

doi:10.1145/3442481.3442507

A sports day for programming

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Abstract

This paper introduces a sports day for programming, a one-day workshop, that includes ideation, design, implementation, peer review, and a Eurovision style finale. It is a summative assessment introduced to an introductory programming course for the degree Creative Technology.

While the course includes both formative and summative assessment in tutorials as is common programming courses, both students and teaching team felt that students lacked programming experience to be properly prepared for their final project. Rather than adding another assessment or projects, we developed the sports day. The term sports day stresses the competitive element, the team aspect, and also that it includes different disciplines, namely ideation, design, implementation, code review and presentation.

This paper explains how this setup was developed to suit the educational philosophy of the degree, how it is implemented, and reports on experiences and evaluations of this annual event.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC '20
Editors	Dave R. Stikkolorum, Ebrahim Rahimi
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450388726
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3442481.3442507
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC '20 - Virtual, Online, Netherlands Duration: 19 Oct 2020 → 20 Oct 2020

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC '20
Abbreviated title	CSERC ‘20
Country/Territory	Netherlands
Period	19/10/20 → 20/10/20

Keywords

Tinkering
programming education
alternative assessment
workshop
tinkering

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Fehnker, A 2020, A sports day for programming. in DR Stikkolorum & E Rahimi (eds), The 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC '20., 11, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 1-6, 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC '20, Netherlands, 19/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442481.3442507

A sports day for programming. / Fehnker, Ansgar.
The 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC '20. ed. / Dave R. Stikkolorum; Ebrahim Rahimi. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 1-6 11 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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