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Teaching basic game programming using JavaScript

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Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 24, Issue 4

Pages 211 - 220

Published: 01 April 2009 Publication History

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JavaScript is a sophisticated modern object-based scripting language. Although it has technical restrictions, it has sufficient features to create Web games, or games people play through the Web. Using JavaScript students can learn the concepts and immediately present their web games to the Web. This paper reports how the author successfully uses JavaScript to teach basic key concepts in a college-level introductory course of game programming.

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Sung CCherng FChiu YChen PChen B(2024)3CPEs: Concrete Computational Concepts Programming Environments for Elementary Computer Science EducationExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3650833(1-7)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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Karavirta VIhantola PAyfer RImpagliazzo JLaxer C(2010)Serverless automatic assessment of Javascript exercisesProceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1822090.1822179(303-303)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1822090.1822179

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Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 24, Issue 4

April 2009

281 pages

ISSN:1937-4771

EISSN:1937-4763

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Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges

Evansville, IN, United States

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Published: 01 April 2009

Published in JCSC Volume 24, Issue 4

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Sung CCherng FChiu YChen PChen B(2024)3CPEs: Concrete Computational Concepts Programming Environments for Elementary Computer Science EducationExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3650833(1-7)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3650833
Karavirta VIhantola PAyfer RImpagliazzo JLaxer C(2010)Serverless automatic assessment of Javascript exercisesProceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1822090.1822179(303-303)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1822090.1822179

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