Editing Intro to Programming and Data Science (Fall 2023) (section)

== Coding Challenges ==

Nearly every week you will have set of coding challenges to complete. These coding challenges will be turned in on Brightspace but will not be graded. I encourage you to work together on these challenges but to make sure that you understand the concepts yourself.

Each day I will randomly select a set of students to share their solutions to a selected exercise. This will involve putting your solution on Element at least one hour before the next day's lecture starts, and being prepared to walk us through the solution. If you can't figure out the problem that's been assigned to you, then explain where you got stuck and what you tried. I encourage you to also use Element to ask and answer each other's questions as you work on the assignments. We will use some of our lecture time to review the problems and I will make sure that a correct solution is posted by the end of that day. As you will see over the course of the module, there are many possible solutions to many programming problems and my own approaches will often be different than yours. That's completely fine! Coding is a creative act!

While I won't be grading these assignments, I will review a sample of them to look for common difficulties or problems. If you want me to provide specific feedback for an assignment, please let me know and I will be happy to do so.