Assessing computational thinking in students' game designs

Amy Hoover; Gillian Puttick; Jackie Barnes; Eli Tucker-Raymond; Borna Fatehi; Casper Harteveld; Jesús Moreno-León

doi:10.1145/2968120.2987750

Assessing computational thinking in students' game designs

Amy Hoover, Gillian Puttick, Jackie Barnes, Eli Tucker-Raymond, Borna Fatehi, Casper Harteveld, Jesús Moreno-León

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Abstract

Designing games requires a complex sequence of planning and executing actions. This paper suggests that game design requires computational thinking, and discusses two methods for analyzing computational thinking in games designed by students in the visual programming language Scratch. We present how these two analyses produce different narratives of computational thinking for our case studies, and reflect on how we plan to move forward with our larger analysis. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	173-179
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450344586
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2968120.2987750
State	Published - Oct 16 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2016 - Austin, United States Duration: Oct 16 2016 → Oct 19 2016

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Other	3rd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	10/16/16 → 10/19/16

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Human-Computer Interaction

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Hoover, A., Puttick, G., Barnes, J., Tucker-Raymond, E., Fatehi, B., Harteveld, C., & Moreno-León, J. (2016). Assessing computational thinking in students' game designs. In CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion (pp. 173-179). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2968120.2987750

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