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Alice first: 3D interactive game programming

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 41, Issue 3

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1595496.1562986

Published: 06 July 2009 Publication History

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For introductory programming courses, we recommend teaching Alice as a precursor to teaching object-oriented languages such as Java. This presentation describes and demonstrates the approach of a newly published workbook that uses a highly motivating story-telling 3D virtual world interactive game design and development pedagogical approach. Students create animated movies and in the process learn object-oriented programming fundamentals.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 41, Issue 3

ITiCSE '09

September 2009

403 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1595496

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ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
July 2009
428 pages
ISBN:9781605583815
DOI:10.1145/1562877
General Chair:
Patrick Brézillon
UPMC, France
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Program Chairs:
Ingrid Russell
University of Hartford, USA
,
Jean-Marc Labat
UPMC, France

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Wu BWang A(2012)A guideline for game development-based learningInternational Journal of Computer Games Technology10.1155/2012/1037102012(8-8)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2012
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