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Are there any assignment repositories that you use for assignment ideas? I am aware of the Nifty Assignments from Stanford and have used several. There are a lot of good fine grained problems on HackerRank, but I would not incorporate the work of a commercial group into an assignment.

Ideally, they would come with a write up and be licensed for general reuse with inclusion of a standard disclaimer, etc. Assignments with multiple parts so students get to live with their own code over a period of time would be great.

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Engage CS Edu (https://www.engage-csedu.org/) is another repository, which, like Nifty Assignments, is curated by peer review.

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    $\begingroup$ Thanks fior the link! Great stuff. $\endgroup$ – Fritz Sieker Jun 19 at 16:53
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At the beginning of every year I buy the UIL contest packet from the previous year from http://store.uiltexas.org/computer-science/ . UIL is an organization that's over athletic and academic competitions in Texas.

Each packet is only $4 and contains around 50 programming problems and 200 multiple choice questions that were used in contests.

Sometimes I use Riddler problems from FiveThirtyEight.com as a starting point for assignments. They're mathy, but with a little work can become programming problems.

Also math heavy, Project Euler has some good smallish type problems that can be solved with code.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for the links! Spent hours looking at the sites and lots of great ideas. $\endgroup$ – Fritz Sieker Jun 19 at 16:51

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