Wu's Castle: Teaching arrays and loops in a game

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 245-249

  Eagle, Michael ^a   Barnes, Tiffany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrays; Cs1 education; Game2learn; Games; Iteration

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CS1 EDUCATION; GAME2LEARN; GAMES; ITERATION;

COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; GAME THEORY; INNOVATION; SNOW; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 57349120131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1384271.1384337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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