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0 pointschris_st4y ago0 comments

Excellent! I really like the idea of doing a lot of small, unique exercises. Even something as simple as, "Okay, you built a linked list of integers, now start from an empty file and write a linked list of floats, then do the same for structs (which is going to add some interesting complexity)."

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tsumnia4y ago

Take a look at my [2] link then (Google Scholar or ResearchGate have the PDF without a paywall)! John Edward's group out of Utah made ~30 small exercises exactly like that. "Make a loop the goes to 3", now "Make a loop that goes to 4", now "Make a loop that goes from 2 to 4", ok now "Loop from 4 to 1", etc.

And from my own work and Edwards, students enjoy these types of practices. They seem trivial to us experts, but they are appreciated by novices.

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