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Tournament play in CS1

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This paper describes the fifth programming assignment given to three CS1 sections in the Fall semester of 1995. The assignment was to design and implement in Ada a program that plays the game of Nim. The students' programs were to accomplish two goals: (1) play and defeat the instructor's Nim playing program, and (2) participate in a course-wide computer-Nim tournament. This paper explains how the assignment was presented to the students, how the game playing programs were developed and evaluated, how the tournament was conducted, the results of the tournament, and an evaluation of the whole exercise.

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      cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 29, Issue 1
      March 1997
      388 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/268085
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      • cover image ACM Conferences
        SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
        March 1997
        410 pages
        ISBN:0897918894
        DOI:10.1145/268084

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