Introductory C programming language learning with game-based digital learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5145 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 221-231

  Chang, Wen Chih ^a   Chou, Yu Min ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; GAME THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; TEACHING;

C CODES; CONTINUOUS; DIGITAL-LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL GAMES; FORMAL TOOLS; INTERACTIVE GAMES; LABORATORY WROUGHT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING MATERIALS; PROGRAMMING COURSES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; STORYLINE; TEACHING/LEARNING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 54249139267     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85033-5_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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