Experience with an industry-driven capstone course on game programming

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 91-95

  Parberry, Ian ^a   Roden, Timothy ^a   Kazemzadeh, Max B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Capstone; Game programming; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CAPSTONE; GAME INDUSTRY; GAME PROGRAMMING; UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 20444472830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047124.1047387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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