Limericks? Shouldn't be too hard. I like the poetry idea a lot. I am trying to come at this from more of a language approach than from the math end. Check the course site occasionally. I'm quite liable to make it an assignment. Programming can be intimidating for beginners as can math so math + code = I quit.

I thought of battleship already, (except for the how to do it parts). I'll post again eventually.

I also plan to run some of the student's cgi scripts on my website. (Anybody interested in writing a page for the site or anything else, email me at hsweet@gcsny.org)