Game-Themed CS1/2: Empowering the Faculty

以游戏为主题的 CS1/2：赋予教师权力

• 批准号: 1140410
• 负责人: Kelvin Sung
• 金额: $ 23万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Game; Themed; CS1; Empowering; Faculty

This project develops materials, training, and support structures for faculty to use in integrating game-themed content into their introductory computer programming courses with minimal impact on their existing curriculum. Through tutorials and workshops, faculty members are empowered to take advantage of game-themed Computer Science education to attract, engage, and retain students in introductory programming courses. A programming language-independent game-themed library is being defined based on previous platform-specific results. The library is then implemented based on Java and C#. A number of engaging demonstration examples, assignments, and tutorials are being designed and then implemented in Java and C#. Assessment of the effectiveness of using the new assignments and tutorials provides formative input in refining these materials. Each of the four teaching modules being developed abstracts and hides the details of computer graphics and games so that neither faculty nor students need any previous background in these areas. Additionally, the modules are self-contained and limited in scope so that faculty can pick and choose a subset to integrate into existing classes. The work is both student- and faculty-centric because it is designed to address the needs of both. Faculty at Cascadia Community College and North Seattle Community College, along with faculty at Willamette University, Evergreen State University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Washington Bothell are involved in testing the ease of use and efficacy of the materials.

该项目开发的材料，培训和支持结构，教师使用在整合游戏为主题的内容到他们的入门计算机编程课程，对他们现有的课程影响最小。通过教程和研讨会，教师有权利用以游戏为主题的计算机科学教育来吸引，吸引和留住学生入门编程课程。一个独立于编程语言的游戏主题库正在根据以前的特定于平台的结果进行定义。该库基于Java和C#实现。许多引人入胜的演示示例、作业和教程正在设计中，然后用Java和C#实现。对使用新作业和教程的有效性进行评估，为完善这些材料提供了形成性的投入。正在开发的四个教学模块中的每一个都抽象并隐藏了计算机图形和游戏的细节，因此教师和学生都不需要这些领域的任何先前背景。此外，这些模块是独立的，范围有限，以便教师可以挑选和选择一个子集集成到现有的类。这项工作是以学生和教师为中心，因为它的目的是解决双方的需求。卡斯卡迪亚社区学院和北西雅图社区学院的教师，以及威拉米特大学，长青州立大学，约翰霍普金斯大学和华盛顿大学Bothell的教师都参与测试材料的易用性和有效性。