How can a social debugging game effectively teach computer programming concepts?

ICER 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 181-182

  Lee, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Debugging; Educational game.; Efficiency; Engagement; Programming; Serious game

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL GAME; ENGAGEMENT; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; ON-LINE GAMING; ONLINE DEBUGGING; SERIOUS GAMES;

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; EFFICIENCY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84883511165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493394.2493424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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