Expressing computer science concepts through kodu game lab

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 99-104

  Stolee, Kathryn T ^a   Fristoe, Teale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational programming languages; Kodu

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN LOGIC; COMPLEX CONTROL FLOW; EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING; EVENT DRIVEN; KODU; MICROSOFT RESEARCHES; NON-TRADITIONAL;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 79954431460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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