Learning the concept of Java inheritance in a game

Proceedings of CGAMES 2013 USA - 18th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 212-216

  Zhang, Jinghua ^a   Caldwell, Elvira R ^a   Smith, Emanuel ^a  

^a WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer programming; Game like module; Inheritance; OOP

Indexed keywords

GAME-LIKE MODULE; INHERITANCE; OBJECTORIENTED PROGRAMMING (OOP);

COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

ANIMATION;

EID: 84890327599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGames.2013.6632635     Document Type: Conference Paper

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