Game-based concept visualization for learning programming

  • Authors:
  • Frederick W.B. Li;Christopher Watson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom;University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • MTDL '11 Proceedings of the third international ACM workshop on Multimedia technologies for distance learning
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents a game-based learning environment to support novice students learning programming. The proposed environment exploits game construction tasks to make the elementary programming more intuitive to learn. It also comprises concept visualization techniques, which allows students to visualize and learn key concepts in programming through game object manipulation.