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

Vinay, S; Vaseekharan, M; Mohamedally, D; (2013) RoboRun: A gamification approach to control flow learning for young students with TouchDevelop. In: Bishop, J and Naik, V, (eds.) Proceedings of Programming for Mobile and Touch (PRoMoTo 2013). Green open access

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Abstract

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 platform to build basic first control flow algorithms and to learn about ordering and loops in conditional statements.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: RoboRun: A gamification approach to control flow learning for young students with TouchDevelop
Event: Programming for Mobile and Touch (PRoMoTo 2013) Workshop, held at the 2013 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications (SPLASH 2013), 27 October 2013, Indianapolis, USA
Location: Indianapolis, USA
Dates: 27 October 2013
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://pear.sfsu.edu/promoto2013/
Language: Finnish
Additional information: This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Education tool, early programming, learning programming environment, touch-based programming
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1523471
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