RoboRun: A gamification approach to control flow learning for young students with TouchDevelop

نویسندگان

  • Siri Vinay
  • Manoj Vaseekharan
  • Dean Mohamedally
چکیده

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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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1310.0810  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013