Have students write a program that generates a collage of images and/or sounds. This will help them practice image manipulation and function decomposition.

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  • This assignment gives students more room to express their creativity than a typical programming assignment does.
  • A student's program may be a lengthy block of code. This provides a good opportunity to talk about function decomposition—that is, how they can break down their code into smaller sections to make it easier to debug and maintain.
  • This project can even be used for middle schoolers if you provide plenty of starter code.
  • For a variety of examples of this assignment, visit Stanford’s nifty assignment page.

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