Towards the constructive incorporation of serious games within object oriented programming

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Malliarakis, Christos ^a   Satratzemi, Maya ^a   Xinogalos, Stelios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Educational programming environments; Microworlds; Object oriented programming; Serious games

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; MICROWORLDS; OBJECTORIENTED PROGRAMMING (OOP); PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; SERIOUS GAMES;

COMPUTER GAMES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY; UNDERPINNINGS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84897798852     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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