Experimental feedback on Prog&Play: A serious game for programming practice

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-73

  Muratet, M ^a   Torguet, P ^a   Viallet, F ^a   Jessel, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Prog Play; programming; RTS; serious game; video game

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; TEACHING;

ITERATIVE PROCESS; ITS EVALUATION; OPEN SOURCES; PROGRAMMING PRACTICES; PROGRAMMING SKILLS; REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAMES; THIRD PARTIES; VIDEO GAME;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 84862496813     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01829.x     Document Type: Article

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