assignments

Example Assignments

This directory contains example assignments that can be used within the context of a course, or by individuals for self-learning.

Each example assignment is in its own subdirectory containing:

• A pdf file that is ready for distribution to students if you don't have reason to modify the assignment. If you are a self-learner and not part of a class, then the pdf files are probably of interest to you.
• LaTeX source files of the assignments, which make it easy for other instructors to customize to their needs, and which also makes it easy to provide comments intended only for instructors. So if you are a course instructor, I recommend reading the comments within the LaTeX files.

We recommend beginning with the assignment found in assignments/1 or assignments/2. These two assignments are essentially the same, and includes working through the entirety of the tutorial that is built into the application, as well as completing a few follow-up exercises. If you are a self-directed learner, go with assignments/1. If you are a course instructor, then assignments/2 utilizes the Session Log feature to make it easy for you to validate your students' work. See the full list of available assignments for more details

License for Example Assignments

As noted in the README at the top level of the repository, as well as in the Interactive Bin Packing application, its source, files, etc, the Interactive Bin Packing application itself is licensed under the GPL-3.0. However, the GPL license is designed for application to software, and as such doesn't lend itself well to licensing documents such as the example homework assignments.

The example homework assignments contained in this directory are licensed to you under the CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). Why this license?

• It allows you to adapt the assignments to the needs of your course. The example assignments would be rather useless otherwise, since what may work well for my course may work better for you if you change things here or there.
• It allows you to share. Example assignments would likewise be rather useless if you couldn't share them such as with your students.
• It requires attribution. As an academic, I feel that everything you use that was created by someone else should be properly attributed.
• NonCommercial: Well, this allows educators (or self-learning students) to use for educational purposes, but prevents resale as part of a commercial product or other commercial use (e.g., prevents textbook publishers from including it as part of their books, etc).
• ShareAlike: If you change the assignments in some way and want to distribute your changed version, then you must use the same license. This keeps derivatives open.

Note to Instructors

If you do create variations of the assignments that you think would be useful to others, or if you create brand new assignments that utilize the Interactive Bin Packing application in some way, then consider contributing them directly to this project, by doing the following:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a branch.
3. Add the assignment files to the assignments directory.
4. Submit a pull request.