RoboRun: A gamification approach to control flow learning for young students with TouchDevelop
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This demo paper introduces young students to writing code in a touch enabled interactive maze game. Problem-based learning is given a gamified approach to learning, while simultaneously introducing the TouchDevelop [1] platform to build basic first control flow algorithms and to learn about ordering and loops in conditional statements.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1310.0810 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013