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DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
B.Sc. Computer Game Development ... Why not?
We were motivated to consider proposing/adopting a new curriculum by the decrease in student enrolments currently experienced by our computing science programs. This requirement f...
Libero Ficocelli, David Gregg
ITICSE
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A media computation course for non-majors
Computing may well become considered an essential part of a liberal education, but introductory programming courses will not look like the way that they do today. Current CS1 cour...
Mark Guzdial
CHI
1995
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The ScienceWare Modeler: a learner-centered tool for students building models
The Modeler is designed using a learner-centered approach [5], with scaffolding to address the specific needs of learners. Scaffolding [3] is an educational term that refers to pro...
Shari L. Jackson
ITICSE
2006
ACM
16 years 7 days ago
Fast application development to demonstrate computer graphics concepts
Computer graphics concepts have a high visual component. For that reason, teaching this subject should be enriched with the use of small applications showing concepts like near an...
Pedro Pablo Gómez-Martín, Marco Anto...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
Scalable game design and the development of a checklist for getting computational thinking into public schools
Game design appears to be a promising approach to interest K-12 students in Computer Science. Unfortunately, balancing motivational and educational concerns is truly challenging. ...
Alexander Repenning, David C. Webb, Andri Ioannido...