[EricH]

Originally Posted by teslalab2

You could have a program challenge where they have to make a program to calculate digits of pi, and the fastest one wins.

To what degree of accuracy? 10? 100? 10000000? Something about nobody finishing that one yet...


Just to give something that's actually helpful:

First, what is the broad objective? Teach good programming practice, right? (Clean code, good algorithms, etc.--all the usual "good programming" goals.) I remind you of this.

Second, what is the device that will run the program? Laptop (and which OS)? RIO (c or Robo)? That's going to affect some of the structure, you know.



Personally, I'd use a particularly nasty heat transfer over time problem... Wait. Got one. PM inbound.