Teaching Material Archives
This page includes links to some materials that I've created for teaching I've done in the past, that may be of general interest to others. Quick links:
Understanding Programming Concepts
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Programmers
Solve Problems to produce Pascal Code
This is a site intended to help students learning to program in Pascal, by means of providing discussions about example problems. Each discussion also includes sample solution code, test data, and stepwise refinement designs.
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Pointer Puzzles
This is a site used as part of a module called Constructing Computer Software, and is intended to help students learning to program with pointers. It provides three puzzles to solve, using operations on pointers expressed in Pascal.
- I wrote some "self-test" quizzes/applets, to allow students to see whether
they understand various data structures and algorithms concepts:
- Complexity (Big 'O' Notation) - a quiz with 10 questions (uses Javascript)
- Is it a Binary Search Tree? - a game for understanding what binary search trees are (uses Java)
- Is it a Heap? - a game for understanding what heap trees are (uses Java)
- Is it an AVL Tree? - a game for understanding what AVL trees are (uses Java)
Past Programming Assignments
Below are assorted programming assignments that I have set for undergraduates:
- Functional Programming
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April 2005: Word Puzzles
- interactive Haskell games.
Includes WordGuess (a version of the traditional
game known as Hangman) and Cryptogram (guess the simple cipher)
April 2006: RSS feed aggregator
- a simple feed reader and aggregator in Haskell, using some XML parsing
- Data Structures & Algorithms
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April 2006: Willie the Whizzy World-Wide-Web Worm
- traversing the world-wide web and remembering which URLs have been visited by storing
old URLs in a hash table, in Delphi Pascal
November 2006: RSS Feeds Aggregator
- a simple feed reader and aggregator in Pascal, using some XML parsing
November 2007: Hash Table Testing
- writing a test harness in Delphi Pascal for black box testing of unknown hash tables
April 2008: The ESP Game
- using a tree to store guessing history, the computer tries
with some considerable success to predict your next guess...
Uses Delphi Pascal.
Projects & Dissertations Materials
As well as the collection of projects and dissertations resources I've gathered, I've also produced the following, especially for undergraduates undertaking a final year computing project and postgraduates undertaking an MSc dissertation:
- Still can't think of a topic? - an article to give some suggestions on suitable topics for final year undergraduate computing projects.
- Writing a Project Proposal - an article to give an overview of what should be in an undergraduate project proposal.
- How (NOT) to write a project report (PDF) - some slides of a talk I gave long ago in Feb 2005, when I used to be undergraduate projects coordinator. Some of the information right at the end is out of date, but the basic advice about writing reports still stands. Also includes some advice for producing posters.
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Project Report Writing: A Checklist
- all the things an undergraduate shouldn't forget to do when producing
a project report! Aimed at undergraduates, but the advice also applies to MSc dissertations.
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Referencing for a Computing Project Reports
- exactly what you need to know about referencing when it comes to your
project report or dissertation.
- Brookes Computing Projects Poster Gallery - 43 examples of posters by final year Brookes students for their computing projects.