Computer games and traditional CS courses

Authors:
Kelvin Sung
Affiliations:
University of Washington, Bothell, WA
Venue:
Communications of the ACM - Finding the Fun in Computer Science Education
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Integrating computer games into existing CS courses may help attract students to the field, but there are guidelines to be considered.