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Title:
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A COURSE ON PROGRAMMING FOR BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES STUDENTS |
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Author(s):
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Rachel Or-bach |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-95-9 |
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Editors:
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Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, J. Michael Spector,Pedro Isaías and Dirk Ifenthaler |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Higher education, employability, learning programming, multimedia programming, problem-solving skills |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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447 |
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Last Page:
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452 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Through out the short history of personal computers there have been several attempts to delineate possible benefits for
the teaching of programming to non-programmers, from children to higher education students. The potential benefits
range from motivation and creativity to logical thinking, problem solving skills and more. In this paper we describe an
exploratory study of teaching programming to Behavioral Sciences students using an interactive multimedia
programming environment. We describe the goals we had for the respective course titled "Design of computer-based
interactive stories and games" along with preliminary findings regarding the achievement of some of these goals. |
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