Teaching Computer Architectures through Automatically Corrected Projects: Preliminary Results
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Computer Architectures, Memory Hierarchies, Teaching in Computer ScienceAbstract
In this paper, I report preliminary results of using GitHub and Travis CI as tools for assigning and grading projects in a course on Computer Architecture and Organization for undergraduate students in Computer Science and Engineering. Besides addressing the topics of the course itself, students are presented with development tools used in the industry with a hands-on experience. I present the workflow for assigning and grading students, some helper scripts, and results on submissions. Students tend to commit their code near the deadline, which is both because they procrastinate and they are still learning the philosophy behind version control, hence even with allegedly having coded part of the assignment, they leave commits for when the entire project is done.
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