Using storytelling to motivate programming

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 58-64

  Kelleher, Caitlin ^a   Pausch, Randy ^a,b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center   (United States)

^c Alice Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED MOVIES; STORYTELLING ALICE PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS;

ANIMATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34547301184     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1272516.1272540     Document Type: Article

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