Publication

Beyond Minecraft: Facilitating Computational Thinking through Modeling and Programming in 3D

Description

Visual programming in 3D sounds much more appealing than programming in 2D, but what are its benefits? Here, University of Colorado Boulder educators discuss the differences between 2D and 3D regarding three concepts connecting computer graphics to computer science education: ownership, spatial thinking, and syntonicity.

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PUBLICATION DETAILS

Type
Article
Author
A. Repenning
David C. Webb
Catharine Brand
Fred Gluck
Ryan Grover
Susan Miller
Hilarie Nickerson
Muyang Song
Publisher
IEEE
Topic(s)
Computational Thinking
Publication Year
2014
Additional Disciplines
Computer Science - programming