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Have students design an anagram solver in Prolog or Java to introduce recursive backtracking.

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  • The final product is fun for students to play around with and demonstrates how powerful a short program can be.
    • Note from the CS Teaching Tips Team: visit the Wikipedia entry on recursive backtracking for more information.
  • For the full assignment, visit Stanford’s nifty assignment page.

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  • Java
  • Other Programming Language
  • CS 2
  • Programming Concepts
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Stanford's Nifty Assignment by Stuart Reges
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