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Computer games as motivation for design patterns

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Paul V. GestwickiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 1

Pages 233 - 237

https://doi.org/10.1145/1227504.1227391

Published: 07 March 2007 Publication History

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We present a computer game case study that can be used to motivate the need for design patterns. Design patterns are often misunderstood, but good examples can motivate students to work at understanding patterns. Computer games are used in many books and online resources to teach programming concepts, but these examples are usually simplified or non-object-oriented. We present a simple game that exhibits functionality found in commercial games (animation, collision detection, etc.) and show how it can be used as a case study for design patterns. Specifically, we illustrate how the state, facade, observer, strategy, and visitor patterns can replace procedural approaches for implenting the logic and animation of game written in Java.

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Computer games as motivation for design patterns
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 1

March 2007

581 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1227504

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SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2007
634 pages
ISBN:1595933611
DOI:10.1145/1227310
General Chairs:
Ingrid Russell
University of Hartford
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Susan Haller
SUNY Potsdam
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Program Chairs:
J. D. Dougherty
Haverford College
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Susan Rodger
Duke University

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