Teaching programming with gamified semantics

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2017-May, Issue , 2017, Pages 4911-4923

  Arawjo, Ian ^a   Wang, Cheng Yao ^b   Myers, Andrew C ^b   Andersen, Erik ^b   Guimbretière, François ^a  

^a Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Block based programming; Concreteness fading; Educational games; Novice programming

Indexed keywords

CONCRETES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

BLOCK BASED; COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; CONCRETENESS FADING; EDUCATIONAL GAME; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 85030176403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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