Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming

• Main Authors: Ibrahim, Roslina, Che Mohd Yusoff, Rasimah, Mohamed@Omar, Hasiah, Jaafar, Azizah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2011
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12371/1/journal_ccse.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12371/; http://www.ccsenet.org/cis
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Educational computer games studies experienced rapid growth due to the belief that games can offer various learning benefits being highly popular among younger generations. Programming is considered a challenging subject by students and teachers, consequently students feel less motivated to learn it...