Via a post by Mark Guzdial [1], I found links to these two papers:
a) Parsons and Haden: Parson's Programming Puzzles: A Fun and Effective
Learning Tool for First Programming Courses [2]
b) Ihantola and Karavirta: Two-Dimensional Parson's Puzzles: The
Concept, Tools, and First Observations [3]
The first one introduces a programming exercise in which learners are
given the lines of code they need to solve a problem, and have to put
them in order. The second describes a tool for doing this with Python
code (where lines need to be indented as well as sorted), and a
Javascript widget for doing this in a web page. It would be really cool
if we could incorporate this into some of our lessons - anyone want to
take a crack at it and report back? I'd really like to know:
1. Does the tool work well enough to be worth adopting?
2. Can we nest it in our lessons (which are written in Markdown) without
heroic mind-bending effort and/or use of quantum entanglement?
Cheers,
Greg
[1]
https://computinged.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/blog-post-2000-barbara-ericson-proposes/
[2] http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV52Parsons.pdf
[3] http://www.jite.org/documents/Vol10/JITEv10IIPp119-132Ihantola944.pdf
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