Games as a "flavor" of CS1

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 500-504

  Bayliss, Jessica D ^a   Strout, Sean ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Games; Video games

Indexed keywords

PROGRAMMING COURSES; VIDEO GAMES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; STUDENTS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 37849050572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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