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

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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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Type

Article

Author

A. Repenning

David C. Webb

Catharine Brand

Fred Gluck

Ryan Grover

Susan Miller

Hilarie Nickerson

Muyang Song

Publisher

IEEE

Publication Website URL

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6813968

Topic(s)

Computational Thinking

Publication Year

2014

Additional Disciplines

Computer Science - programming