Experimental evaluation of teaching recursion in a video game

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games, Sandbox '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-86

  Chaffin, Amanda ^a   Doran, Katelyn ^a   Hicks, Drew ^a   Barnes, Tiffany ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Evaluation; Game development; Motivation

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOTIVATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; DEPTH FIRST SEARCH; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GAME DEVELOPMENT; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; TRANSFER OF LEARNING;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 70450272513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1581073.1581086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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