A program generator seems rather advanced for a beginner's assignment... When I started, I wrote an Excel spreadsheet to generate what I would now describe as

A program generator seems rather advanced for a beginner's assignment... When I started, I wrote an Excel spreadsheet to generate what I would now describe as a 50 element array. I also recall seeing a project to programatically generate mnemonic operators in Haskell, limited only by the ability of the compiler to not run out of memory. Sadly, I can't seem to find it.