Engaging students through mobile game development

Kurkovsky, Stan

doi:10.1145/1508865.1508881

Cited by 67 publications

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“…We find that this challenge has been mitigated by tooling the game development properly [8,12], by letting the students start with a preprogrammed skeleton [14], and by emphasizing games that are of tolerable size [10].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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High school students' perspective to university CS1

Lakanen

Isomöttönen

2013

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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This paper presents a qualitative study of a school-university collaborative project where a game-themed CS1 course was offered as-is to high school students. Our specific interest was to explore the students' experiences with the university level course. Our analyses indicate that immediate and regular support was highly important for student performance, as support of this kind could mitigate issues related to students' orientation towards the high workload of the course. Students who showed academic interest were likely to pass, whereas students lacking self-direction or work efficiency were likely to drop out. Both passed and drop-outs found the course to be a good learning experience. The game theme of the course was in most cases found highly motivating and fun, while it was not a necessity for the majority of the students. This information can be utilized by higher education instructors who plan to carry out university courses in cooperation with high schools.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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High school students' perspective to university CS1

Lakanen

Isomöttönen

2013

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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“…There are a number of platforms available for mobile application development including Microsoft Windows Mobile [28], Sun's Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) [17], Google Android [7], and Qualcomm's Brew [23]. However, only two of these mobile platforms support development in the Java programming language: Android and Java ME.…”

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Human computer interaction that reaches beyond desktop applications

Loveland

2011

Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Recently, several frameworks have been developed for writing mobile and web applications in Java, making the development of web and mobile applications accessible to HCI students with only a CS1 Java background. In this paper we describe using student projects based on the Google Android mobile platform and Google's Web Toolkit to provide students with experience designing and implementing user interfaces for mobile and web applications. Specific examples demonstrate how programming on these platforms reinforces standard HCI topics. As a result of being able to learn mobile device programming in the context of "cool" Google platforms, students expressed increased interest in studying HCI.

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“…On one hand, many proposals focus on specific courses [2], [11], [12], [15], [16]. On the other hand, there are proposals [1], [7], [8], [10] adopting teaching methods, lab kits, and technologies on introductory courses focused on freshmen students.…”

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Open hardware platforms in a first course of the Computer Engineering undergraduate program

Santos

2014

2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) Proceedings

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This paper presents a new methodology proposal and hands-on activities in the Introduction to Computer Engineering (ICE) course, based on open hardware platforms. The proposal has been adopted in the Computer Engineering undergraduate program at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) -Brazil. Most of the ICE courses from computer engineering programs around the world have put focus on teaching initial basic theoretical concepts of algorithms, logic, and digital systems. The ICE course at UFMS has been organized to encompass from initial basic concepts up to a practical and motivating set of experimental activities in order to clarify the program focus and to connect the concepts to practical applications. To evaluate the impacts of this new curriculum and methodology, an online anonymous survey has been carried out with students from 2011, 2012, and 2013 classes. After a statistical analysis and validation of the answers, 28% of the students have pointed that the activities have been determinant to increase their motivation to study computer engineering. The impacts on students motivation, since the first semester, have been observed in the students evasion rate. The percentage of evasions in the computer engineering is less than other engineering programs at UFMS.

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Engaging students through mobile game development

Cited by 67 publications

References 28 publications

High school students' perspective to university CS1

High school students' perspective to university CS1

Human computer interaction that reaches beyond desktop applications

Open hardware platforms in a first course of the Computer Engineering undergraduate program

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