MagicBlocks: A game kit for exploring digital logic

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 6059-6072

  Kharma, Nawwaf ^a   Caro, Leon ^a   Venkatesh, Vivek ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital logic; Engineering education; Games and simulations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORMAL LOGIC; LOGIC CIRCUITS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

DIGITAL LOGIC; ENGINEERING GRADUATES; GAMES AND SIMULATIONS; LEARNERS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744292955     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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