A fantasy adventure game as a learning environment: Why learning to program is so difficult and what can be done about it

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 114-116

  Moser, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 3943110873     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/268809.268853     Document Type: Article

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