World of Codecraft: 3-D Game Teaches Kids 'Big Ideas' of Programming | Wired Enterprise

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World of Codecraft: 3-D Game Teaches Kids 'Big Ideas' of Programming | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com:
BY KLINT FINLEY 07.19.136:30 AM

ENGAGE, a 3-D game that teaches programming concepts to kids.
Videogames are a waste of time. Well, not always. Sometimes they can teach you stuff, like honest-to-goodness computer programming skills.

The trick is to make these educational games as interesting and enjoyable as the shoot-em-up variety, and that’s not always easy. But researchers at North Carolina State University want to help. Dr. Kristy Boyer and Fernando Rodríguez are studying the way youngsters respond to a 3-D game that teaches programming, hoping to discover the secrets of building games that are not only educational but enjoyable"

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