'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming [Slashdot]

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CyberSlugGump writes "Computer scientists at UC San Diego have developed a 3D first-person video game designed to teach young students Java programming. In CodeSpells a wizard must help a land of gnomes by writing spells in Java. Simple quests teach main Java components such as conditional and loop statements. Research presented March 8 at the 2013 SIGCSE Technical Symposium indicate that a test group of 40 girls aged 10-12 mastered many programming concepts in just one hour of playing." http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status='CodeSpells'+Video+Game+Teaches+Childr en+Java+Programming%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10N1p tQ) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F13%2F04%2F10%2F2237243%2Fcodespells-video-game-teaches-children-java-programming%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3 Dfacebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/04/10/2237243/codespells-video-game-teaches-children-java-programming?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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