College Exercise in Programming - Sample of Real life work while Teaching

I think a great way to teach people how to properly think through all aspect of computer coding (or anything) is to have people write their code as normal, then halfway through the project their code is given to someone else and that OTHER person now has to complete the project. Everyone swaps.

 

This would definitely test to see if the people followed proper coding and documentation techniques.

A person getting really bad source code would get a bonus for the project! (Complete or not, after all they would have to re-engineer or spend lots of time trying to figure out what routines did.)

 

This could be applied to other aspect of teaching in college, and even in High School, as well.