REU Summer Reading List

Required Reading for REU Students - Not to be presented but you must read them

Barnes, T., E. Powell, A. Chaffin, H. Lipford. Game2Learn: Improving the engagement and motivation of CS1 students. ACM GDCSE 2008.

Barnes, T., H. Richter, A. Chaffin, A. Godwin, E. Powell. (2007). Game2Learn: Building CS1 Learning Games for Retention. ITiCSE2007: 121-125

Barnes, T., H. Richter, A. Chaffin, A. Godwin, E. Powell, T. Ralph, P. Matthews, and H. Jordan. (2006). Game2Learn: A study of games as tools for learning introductory programming. Submitted to SIGCSE2007, Kentucky, USA, March 2006.

Barnes, T., H. Richter, A. Chaffin, A. Godwin, E. Powell. (2006). The role of feedback in Game2Learn. Submitted to CHI2007, San Jose, CA, April 2006.

Eagle, M. and Barnes, T. 2008. Wu's castle: teaching arrays and loops in a game. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 02, 2008). ITiCSE'08. ACM, New York, NY, 245-249. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/ 1384271.1384337

Youngblood, G. M. 2006. Engaging Students in Advanced Computer Science Education Using Game Segments. Journal of Game Development. Vol. 2 Issue 2. 2006 pp. 33--45.

General References -

ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force. Computing Curriculum 2001. Accessed February 13, 2008. http://www.acm.org/education/curric_vols/cc2001.pdf

Beaubouef, T., and Mason, J, 2005. Why the high attrition rate for computer science students: Some thoughts and observations. ACM SIGCSE Inroads Bulletin, 37(2), 2005, 103-106.

Prensky, M. Digital Game-Based Learning. New York: McGraw Hill, 2001.

Vegso, J. Continued Drop in CS Bachelor's Degree Production and Enrollments as the Number of New Majors Stabilizes. Computing Research News, Vol. 19, No. 2, March 2007.