Assignment Guru (2024)

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Meet our team!

What is Assignment Guru?

The Assignment Guru Program aims to create assignments for CS111 and CS112 that demonstrate the positive social impact of computing. Assignment Gurus are important members of our team and bring fresh ideas, diverse perspectives, and their own skills to the programming assignments they create.Incorporating assignments with social responsibility and visual applications into early computing courses can be interesting and motivating for students and can help them relate assignments with concepts they’ve seen in their own lives.

This program is supported by the Advancing Women in Computer Science initiative, which is run in partnership with the Department of Computer Science, DIMACS, and Douglass Residential College.

Why Get Involved?

There are many reasons! But to name a few, being an Assignment Developer lets you…

• Gain project management and development skills. You’ll be able to shape your own assignment into one we can use for CS111 and CS112, from start to finish. We follow coding and documentation standards similar to those in the industry.
• Create assignments with real-world and social impact applications.Over the past few years, our Assignment Developers have made some interesting assignments based on promoting ethics and social justice as well as visual applications that help relate the structures we use in class to real-world concepts.
• Collaborate with peers, faculty and mentors. You work closely with mentors through weekly check-in meetings, and you work on assignments in a pair or small group.
• Contribute to a more inclusive and welcoming CS environment at Rutgers. Your assignments directly contribute to how students perceive CS and programming in general.
• Have fun! Creating assignments is a challenge but a fun and interesting one. You get to work on the “other side” of creating assignments, all while collaborating with others!

Yashas Ravi’s assignment, “Infinity War”, has been accepted as a Nifty Assignment at SIGCSE 2024. This assignment originated from the Assignment Guru program. Join us in congratulating Yashas!

SIGCSE (the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) is an organization that provides a space for educators working to develop, implement, and evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses.

Click here for more info about how we work!

"The Assignment Guru Program helped me meet new people and work on creating real projects. I’ve been able to talk about my experiences to interviewers and employers, and I’ve met some lifelong friends as a result of the program. I’m really grateful for my experiences as an Assignment Developer!"

How to Get Involved

We usually work in June and July to create assignments and expect that Assignment Developers have completed CS112 (Data Structures) by the start of the program in June.

Applications to join our Summer 2025 cohort will open in Spring 2025.