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I agree that pp2_10_1 is too complicated. With 11 Parsons' puzzle pieces to organize, there are a very, very large number of possible orderings. In fact I came here because I am using the fopp-PIE text, and I wondered if pp2_10_1 was also in chapter 2 of fopp.
I do think that Activity: 2.10.7 ShowEval helps some, but not completely. What additionally concerns me about this Parsons' problem is that what actually happened is that when the functions were defined way up in Activity: 2.10.5 ActiveCode (ac2_10_4) those function identifiers were added to the globals list which is, of course, not something one would want to say in chapter 2 of a book for novice programmers.
Hence, I think such a complicated example would benefit from the addition of two things before it:
I would love to hear your thoughts, @presnick and @laumurph.
Describe the bug In the early going of the semester a lot of students (and professors) are having a really hard time getting this right. Its pretty long and complicated for so early in the semester.
I added a
showeval
of a somewhat simpler problem, which I apologize for pushing directly to master @presnick and @laumurph . If you hate it we can always make a new PR to change it.I think having the showeval first will probably alleviate some of the pressure on this one, but I also wondered if this was moved here from a much later chapter.