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Reaching out with game design

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Katelyn Doran,

Acey Boyce,

Samantha FinkelsteinAuthors Info & Claims

FDG '10: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Pages 250 - 251

https://doi.org/10.1145/1822348.1822382

Published: 19 June 2010 Publication History

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In this poster we will detail our experience leading a ten-week apprenticeship in Game Design and Development for a group of Middle School students. This apprenticeship is lead in association with the national after-school program, Citizen Schools and is intended to both educate students about Computer Science concepts while imparting real-world job skills.

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Smith GSullivan ASmith King LMusicant DCamp TTymann P(2012)The five year evolution of a game programming courseProceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/2157136.2157168(87-92)Online publication date: 29-Feb-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2157136.2157168
Boyce ADoran KCampbell APickford SCuller DBarnes TCavazza MIsbister KRich C(2011)BeadLoom GameProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games10.1145/2159365.2159384(139-146)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2159365.2159384
Boyce ACampbell APickford SCuller DBarnes TRößling GNaps TSpannagel C(2011)Experimental evaluation of BeadLoom gameProceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1999747.1999816(243-247)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1999747.1999816

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Reaching out with game design
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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FDG '10: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

June 2010

306 pages

ISBN:9781605589374

DOI:10.1145/1822348

Conference Chair:
Ian Horswill
Northwestern University
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Yusuf Pisan
University of Technology, Sydney

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Smith GSullivan ASmith King LMusicant DCamp TTymann P(2012)The five year evolution of a game programming courseProceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/2157136.2157168(87-92)Online publication date: 29-Feb-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2157136.2157168
Boyce ADoran KCampbell APickford SCuller DBarnes TCavazza MIsbister KRich C(2011)BeadLoom GameProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games10.1145/2159365.2159384(139-146)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2159365.2159384
Boyce ACampbell APickford SCuller DBarnes TRößling GNaps TSpannagel C(2011)Experimental evaluation of BeadLoom gameProceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1999747.1999816(243-247)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1999747.1999816

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