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Machine generation of assignments for a mass education introductory programming course

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In any classroom, students vary in their background and aptitudes. It has long been recognized [6] that, ideally, each student should receive instruction and assignments geared to his own particular ability to perform: Weaker students should receive additional instruction and less demanding assignments; stronger students should be challenged by more complex or thought-provoking problems. In practice, however, many classes, especially in the introductory courses, have too many students for the instructor to provide such individualized attention. The slower students must struggle, often without much success, to keep up with the others, while some of the brighter ones become bored by it all.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 5, Issue 1
          Proceedings of the 3rd SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
          February 1973
          171 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/953053
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            SIGCSE '73: Proceedings of the third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
            January 1973
            185 pages
            ISBN:9781450373753
            DOI:10.1145/800010

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