Demonstrating the need for precision to freshmen: nifty assignment
David Middleton · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2011
This assignment has been used in our Orientation to Computing course to show first-time college students the extent to which their usual narrative is imprecise: their usual descriptions omit crucial details and convey others ambiguously. Demonstrating that tangible discrepancies inevitably follow motivates them to pay more attention to detail.