The question may seem strange but the motivation behind it is Joel Spolsky's article Hitting the High Notes:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
I've been reading about programmer productivity for a while but most of what I found was the mere statement that some programmers are an order of magnitude more effective than others and some irrelevant mantra about how LOC doesn't measure productivity but I'm interested in what does measure productivity, not in what doesn't. This article was the only piece of hard data that I could find about the topic. I tried to look this course up on Yale's website but I'm not allowed to view the contents.
So if anyone has access to the requirements of each assignment can you please post them?
I'm eager to find out where I am on the productivity scale.