Investigating the role of purposeful goals on novices' engagement in a programming game

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 163-166

  Lee, Michael J ^a   Ko, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

education; engagement; games; Programming

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DATA ELEMENTS; EDUCATIONAL GAME; ENGAGEMENT; GAMES; LEARNING TASKS;

EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84870880939     PISSN: 19436092     EISSN: 19436106     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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