@inproceedings{biester-wu-2024-tightly-coupled,
    title = "Tightly Coupled Worksheets and Homework Assignments for {NLP}",
    author = "Biester, Laura  and
      Wu, Winston",
    editor = {Al-azzawi, Sana  and
      Biester, Laura  and
      Kov{\'a}cs, Gy{\"o}rgy  and
      Marasovi{\'c}, Ana  and
      Mathur, Leena  and
      Mieskes, Margot  and
      Weissweiler, Leonie},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/moar-dois/2024.teachingnlp-1.8/",
    pages = "66--68",
    abstract = "In natural language processing courses, students often struggle to debug their code. In this paper, we present three homework assignments that are tightly coupled with in-class worksheets. The worksheets allow students to confirm their understanding of the algorithms on paper before trying to write code. Then, as students complete the coding portion of the assignments, the worksheets aid students in the debugging process as test cases for the code, allowing students to seamlessly compare their results to those from the correct execution of the algorithm."
}