A recipe for game development assignments in CS2

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Citeable URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/v692t655f

Abstract

CS2  classes  suffer  from  a  trend  of  dropping  enrollment,  poor  gender  diversity,  the  challenge  of  students  learning  a  secondary  programming  language,  and  difficulties  related  to  inadequate  (or  varied)  preparation  provided  by  CS1.    Surveying  educational  research  has  indicated  that  using  game  development  as  the focus for  assignments  can  mitigate  many  of  the  challenges  of  teaching  CS1.  This  paper  has  extracted  many  of  the  key  beneficial  components  of  game  development  assignments  in  CS1  and  provides  them  as  a  recipe  for  beneficially  augmenting  CS2  with  game  development  assignments.   It  is  expected  that  all  CS2  courses  can  be  enhanced  by  applying  the  elements  presented  within  this  recipe.

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