Pair students for a subsequent activity by handing them cards with commands and their description. A student with a command forms the pair with the one who has the description.
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| Duration: | 5 minutes |
| Participants: | 8–17 students |
| Instructors: | 1 teacher |
| Class: | any |
| Resources: | printed paper strips |
| Prerequisites: | basic commands for working with files in Python |
- Practice basic commands for working with files in Python.
- Print and cut the cards so that you have 17 strips. (Use one-sided printing.) There is an odd number of strips because you can have an odd number of students, so that you can create one group of 3.
- Let each student randomly pick one paper strip.
- Their task is to find their pair.
- Afterward, you can follow with another team activity, such as The good, the bad, and the ugly.
- This activity can be easily generalized. The same principle is employed in Pairing students based on list comprehensions.
- There are many similar pairing activities in the author's GitHub. The description is in Czech, but it doesn't matter for most activities, as they usually involve code.
Jan Horáček, 2017