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Amenyo, John-Thones – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
Carefully engineered playable games can serve as vehicles for students and practitioners to learn and explore the programming of advanced computer architectures to execute applications, such as high performance computing (HPC) and complex, inter-networked, distributed systems. The article presents families of playable games that are grounded in…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Uses in Education, Programming
Fan, Quyin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Program comprehension is the most important and frequent process in software maintenance. Extensive research has found that individual characteristics of programmers, differences of computer programs, and differences of task-driven motivations are the major factors that affect the program comprehension results. There is no study specifically…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Maintenance, Programming, Employees
Jian, Lian – ProQuest LLC, 2010
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to "identify" the strategic behavior of individuals in information systems, and "analyze" how non-monetary…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Internet, Motivation Techniques, Incentives