Story Creation in VIRTUAL GAME WORLDS.
The article discusses how the process of game creation fosters children's programming skills. Much of the research examining games in educational settings looks at children playing games designed by professional software developers, with little focus on children creating their own games. In the case...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 61 - 66 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jan2005
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