Evaluation of a game-based lab assignment

FDG 2009 - 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 64-70

  Eagle, Michael ^a   Barnes, Tiffany ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arrays; CS1 2 education; Educational games; Iteration; Retention

Indexed keywords

CS1-2 EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL GAME; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LEARNING GAME; NESTED LOOPS; PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENTS; STUDENT LEARNING;

VISUALIZATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77953586724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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