Games, stories, or something more traditional: The types of assignments college students prefer

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 138-142

  Cliburn, Daniel C ^a   Miller, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alice; CS1; Evaluation; Games; Student projects

Indexed keywords

ALICE; CS1; EVALUATION; GAMES; STUDENT PROJECTS;

COMPUTERS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; GAME THEORY; MICROCOMPUTERS; STUDENTS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

TEACHING;

EID: 57449085100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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