Using narrative as a motivating device to teach binary arithmetic and logic gates

Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 97-101

  Waraich, Atif ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer games; Interactive; Learning; Multimedia; Narrative

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER GAMES; INTERACTIVE; MODULAR DEGREE SCHEMES; NARRATIVE;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 10044229418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1007996.1008024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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