====== Week 10: Collaborative Learning and Team Projects ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Explore the use of interfaces in team projects.
  * Study characteristics of useful team projects.

===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

  * Nørmark (2008). [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/2267261T17202K77|Mini Project Programming Exam]].
  * Newman (2002). [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=858415|Open-Ended Group Projects 'Tool' for More Effective Teaching]].
  * Beck, et al, (2005). [[http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1047344.1047495|Cooperative Learning Techniques in CS1: Design and Experimental Evaluation]].

===== Topics =====

  * Interfaces as an alternative to inheritance
  * Open-ended projects

===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: Object-Oriented Design