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The joy of word games: or, putting the text back into context (abstract only)

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Michael P. RogersAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445495

Published: 06 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

We have heard much discussion, in recent years, about various contexts for teaching Computer Science. One that does not get a lot of attention, but frankly deserves more, is the notion of using word games -- in which language plays a predominant role -- to teach Computer Science. There is a plethora of clever and simply fun games that can be used to illustrate almost any concept that arises in CS1 and CS2. We would like to start a conversation with other SIGCSE attendees who are interested in these very entertaining, algorithmically stimulating games, and see what techniques they use, and what successes they have had, in incorporating them into the classroom.

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The joy of word games: or, putting the text back into context (abstract only)
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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2013

818 pages

ISBN:9781450318686

DOI:10.1145/2445196

Conference Chairs:
Tracy Camp
Colorado School of Mines
,
Paul Tymann
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Program Chairs:
J. D. Dougherty
Haverford College
,
Kris Nagel
Georgia Gwinnett College

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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 06 March 2013

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SIGCSE '13

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SIGCSE '13: The 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

March 6 - 9, 2013

Colorado, Denver, USA

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SIGCSE '13 Paper Acceptance Rate 111 of 293 submissions, 38%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 1,595 of 4,542 submissions, 35%

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