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Krish Pillai; Marcia Lovas – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
A typical first computer science course (CS1) introduces the student to coding conventions, variables, methods, control structures, conditionals, and the semantics of classes and objects. Advanced concepts of inheritance, polymorphism, abstract classes, interfaces, and their use in the design process, are covered in a second-level course (CS2).…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
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Debabi, Wassila; Champagnat, Ronan – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Serious games seem to be a promising alternative to traditional practices for learning. Recently, their use in computer science education and learning programming became more widespread. Actually, many students in programming courses have difficulties to master all required competencies and skills especially at introductory level and games have…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Computer System Design, Computer Science Education
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Leonard, Jacqueline; Barnes-Johnson, Joy; Mitchell, Monica; Unertl, Adrienne; Stubbe, Christopher R.; Ingraham, Latanya – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
This research report presents the final year results of a three-year research project on computational thinking (CT). The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, involved training teachers in grades four through six to implement Scalable Game Design and LEGO® EV3 robotics during afterschool clubs. Thirty teachers and 531 students took…
Descriptors: Computation, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, STEM Education
Chang, Chiung-Sui; Chen, Jui-Fa; Chen, Fei-Ling – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
In an educational environment, instructors would always think of ways to provide students with motivational learning materials and efficient learning strategies. Hence, many researchers have proposed that students' problem-solving ability enhances their learning. Problem-solving ability plays an important role for users in dealing with problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Computer Science Education, Problem Solving
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Rimanelli, Marco; Gurba, Krzysztof – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Among recent e-Learning Pedagogical Strategies, gaming and crisis-simulation games are increasingly used in recent years in university-learning and Blended-courses as an out-of-context effective tool for role-playing and education, especially in Law Schools and Business Schools. Gaming covers several sub-fields (war-games; Law School Mock-Trials;…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Social Integration, Teaching Methods, Role Playing
Frydenberg, Mark – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
Teaching students to create computer games has become a common practice in both K-12 and tertiary education to introducing programming concepts, increasing student engagement, and recruiting majors and minors in technology fields. This study describes a project where first-year college students in an introductory technology concepts course use a…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Science Education, Programming, Introductory Courses
Skolnick, Michael M.; Spooner, David L. – 1995
Modern computing systems exploit graphical user interfaces for interaction with users; as a result, introductory computer science courses must begin to teach the principles underlying such interfaces. This paper presents an approach to graphical user interface (GUI) implementation that is simple enough for beginning students to understand, yet…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Computer Science Education
Char, Cynthia – 1983
Several research and design issues to be considered when creating educational software were identified by a field test evaluation of three types of innovative software created at Bank Street College: (1) Probe, software for measuring and graphing temperature data; (2) Rescue Mission, a navigation game that illustrates the computer's use for…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Science Education, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Development