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How to fail a programming assignment
2007
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Computer programming courses at university usually require students to undertake assignments which involve the submission of a working program by a particular date. Each semester, for a variety of reasons, some students fail these programming assignments. This paper uses humour to illuminate some of the unsuccessful approaches to programming assignments taken by some of the computing students whom the author has taught.
doi:10.1145/1272848.1272884
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