Teaching robotics and computer science with pinball machines

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-10-03, Issue , 2010, Pages 37-42

  Wong, Daniel ^a   Earl, Darren ^a   Zyda, Fred ^a   Koenig, Sven ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; PIN-BALL MACHINES;

EDUCATIONAL ROBOTS;

EID: 77957938297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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