Idioms for Composing Games with EToys

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Fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5'06)

University of California, Berkeley, California USA

January 26-January 27

ISBN: 0-7695-2563-6

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	Markus Gaelli, Oscar Nierstrasz, Serge Stinckwich, "Idioms for Composing Games with EToys," Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, International Conference on, pp. 222-231, Fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5'06), 2006.

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	@article{ 10.1109/C5.2006.20, author = {Markus Gaelli and Oscar Nierstrasz and Serge Stinckwich}, title = {Idioms for Composing Games with EToys}, journal ={Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, International Conference on}, volume = {0}, year = {2006}, isbn = {0-7695-2563-6}, pages = {222-231}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/C5.2006.20}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, International Conference on TI - Idioms for Composing Games with EToys SN - 0-7695-2563-6 SP222 EP231 A1 - Markus Gaelli, A1 - Oscar Nierstrasz, A1 - Serge Stinckwich, PY - 2006 KW - null VL - 0 JA - Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, International Conference on ER -

Markus Gaelli, University of Bern, Switzerland

Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland

Serge Stinckwich, Universite de Caen/CNRS, France

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/C5.2006.20

Creating one?s own games has been the main motivation for many people to learn programming. But the barrier to learn a general purpose programming language is very high, especially if some positive results can only be expected after having manually written more than 100 lines of code. With this paper we first motivate potential users by showing that one can create classic board- and arcade games like Lights Out, TicTacToe, or Pacman within the playful and constructivist visual learning environment EToys dragging together only a few lines of code. Then we present recurring idioms which helped to develop these games.

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Markus Gaelli, Oscar Nierstrasz, Serge Stinckwich, "Idioms for Composing Games with EToys," c5, pp.222-231, Fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5'06), 2006

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