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The Infinity War assignment engages students to practice manipulating the graph data structure in the context of the Avengers: Infinity War movie. The assignment has various tasks, where each task focuses on a specific aspect of a graph, and makes connections to the movie as well as other fields such as Physics, Neuroscience, and Philosophy in a fun and creative manner. Specifically, students practice graph manipulation, connectedness, search, recursion, and cycle detection. The assignment is meant for CS2 students, takes around 1-2 weeks to complete, and has a mix of easier and harder tasks. Infinity War was designed to engage students with the movie narrative while practicing graph manipulation and algorithms.

Sat 23 Mar

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13:45 - 15:00
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Chair(s): Nick Parlante Stanford University, Julie Zelenski Stanford University, Dave Reed Creighton University, Michael Guerzhoy University of Toronto
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Simulating Election VotesGlobalHybridCC
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Aleksandr Popov National Research University Higher School of Economics
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Exploring the Scurry of Squirrels in Central ParkHybridCC
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Rachel Frisbie Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering; Michigan State University, Devin Silvia Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering; Michigan State University, Marcos Caballero Michigan State University, Rachel Roca Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering; Michigan State University, Amanda Bowerman Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Krithi Sachithanand Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
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Infinity WarHybridCC
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Yashas Ravi Rutgers University (self), Ana Paula Centeno Rutgers University
14:22
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Modular Virtual 3D Cities AssignmentHybridCC
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Christopher Tralie Ursinus College
14:35
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Alphabear Partial SolverHybridCC
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Ryan Dougherty United States Military Academy
14:47
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The Fingerprint Assignment: An Interdisciplinary Assessment for CS I EducationHybridCC
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Christian Servin El Paso Community College, Ivan Alonso El Paso Community College, Emiliano Garcia El Paso Community College