Evaluation of Group Projects in an Undergraduate Data Structure Course

Exposure to group projects allows students to explore and extend the concepts they learn in the classroom. The author experimented with semester long projects besides the regular topics of a typical data structure course in an undergraduate setting. The students were encouraged to select different data structures as project topic to solve different practical problems. The goal of this paper is to find out what type of group projects work the best in a data structure course. The paper focuses on how the students fared with the different data structure projects.