Young people's descriptions of computational rules in role-playing games: An empirical study

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-74

  Good, Judith ^a   Howland, Katy ^a   Nicholson, Keiron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational rules; Empirical studies; Novice programmers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RULES; COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS; COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ERRORS OF COMMISSIONS; GAME DESIGN; NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; ROLE-PLAYING GAME;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ERRORS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 79952060508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2010.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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