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Nikula, Uolevi; Gotel, Orlena; Kasurinen, Jussi – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
It has been estimated that more than two million students started computing studies in 1999 and 650,000 of them either dropped or failed their first programming course. For the individual student, dropping such a course can distract from the completion of later courses in a computing curriculum and may even result in changing their course of study…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Holistic Approach, College Curriculum
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Ritzhaupt, Albert D. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2009
This article provides an overview of the challenges in implementing a game development course with limited resources in computing curricula. An approach to a holistic game development course is outlined in terms of its organization, software, and instructional methods. The course had 23 students enrolled in its first offering and was…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reliability, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods