The Game Maker’s Apprentice

Abstract

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Notice of Retraction: Game-based Learning for Data Structures: A case study

“…The subject is delivered in a semester of 14 weeks with 5 hours of lectures, tutorials and practical sessions in each week. As the Data Structures and Algorithms course is quite challenging to most students due to its abstract nature, a computer game called "Tower of Cubes" is developed based on the Game Maker platform by YoYo Games [11] to help students visualise the data access operations of the data structures on stacks and queues. According to Fisch [12], educational computer games provide an appealing context for engaging learners in activities that deliver substantive educational content and customized feedback.…”

Automating the Implementation of Games Based on Model-Driven Authoring Environments

“…Game Maker [4] is a popular development tool that provides a graphical front-end to an interpreted scripting language (GML) for game creation. Our approach seeks to create a development environment on a higher level of abstraction than Game Maker.…”

Is the Concept of Nature Dispensable?

“…This phenomenon could arise because such primary natures are given and beyond human control (or were until selective breeding and genetic engineering came along), and the use of "nature" (and its equivalents in other languages) conveys their givenness. (Habgood seems to have thought of this first: "It seems to me that the common thread running through all the meanings of nature I have been describing is a sense of givenness 12 .") Or it could arise because these natures are regarded as the outcome of natural rather than supernatural processes.…”

“…To return to the three senses of nature discussed above, physis in Ancient Greek, natura in Latin and Italian, Natur in German and nature in French are just a few examples of words used in all these neighboring and related roles. (Habgood points out that Aristotle never quite used physis in the related sense of the entire natural order, as opposed to a force behind it; but some of his ancient successors undoubtedly did 14 . Cicero certainly used natura in this sense in the text of De Natura Deorum, according to Lewis' and Short's Latin Dictionary 15 .)…”

“…In the context of alienation and claims to identify ways in which people become alienated from nature, it is instructive to bear in mind a passage cited by Habgood, which ends with the sentence: "This theory now gradually falls to pieces, as is the fate of all ideas that are estranged from nature." The theory turns out to be Einstein's theory of relativity, and the source is a Nazi newspaper of 1933, seeking to expose "the dangerous influence of Jewish circles on the study of nature 22 ." This passage underlines the real dangers of misidentifying nature when diagnosing apparent evil; such evidence could be used in favor of the more plausible aspects of the constructivist's case, for all kind of conceptions of nature and of human nature are prone to be concocted, not always on such a flagrant ideological basis, and then used to derive bogus conclusions, whether about women or gays, or human greed or aggression.…”