Conference proceeding
Programming in Game Space: How to Represent Parallel Programming Concepts in an Educational Game
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL GAMES (FDG'19)
01 Jan 2019
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Abstract
Concurrent and parallel programming (CPP) skills are increasingly important in today's world of parallel hardware. However, the conceptual leap from deterministic sequential programming to CPP is notoriously challenging to make. Our educational game Parallel is designed to support the learning of CPP core concepts through a game-based learning approach, focusing on the connection between gameplay and CPP. Through a 10-week user study (n 25) in an undergraduate concurrent programming course, the first empirical study for a CPP educational game, our results show that Parallel offers both CPP knowledge and student engagement. Furthermore, we provide a new framework to describe the design space for programming games in general.
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- Title
- Programming in Game Space: How to Represent Parallel Programming Concepts in an Educational Game
- Creators
- Jichen Zhu - Drexel UniversityKatelyn Alderfer - Drexel UniversityAnushay Furqan - Drexel UniversityJessica Nebolsky - Drexel UniversityBruce Char - Drexel UniversityBrian Smith - Drexel UniversityJennifer Villareale - Drexel UniversitySantiago Ontanon - Drexel University
- Contributors
- F Khosmood (Editor)J Pirker (Editor)T Apperley (Editor)S Deterding (Editor)
- Publication Details
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL GAMES (FDG'19)
- Conference
- 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL GAMES (FDG'19), 14th
- Publisher
- Assoc Computing Machinery
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- 1523116 / NSF; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science; Digital Media; Computer Science; [Retired Faculty]; Games, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Systems (GAIMS) Center
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000557260000004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85072844675
- Other Identifier
- 991019168298604721
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- Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
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- Computer Science, Software Engineering