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The serious game Codescape is developed at the RWTH University and used in several introductory programming courses with a total of 3000 students per year. The game supports the simultaneous use of several programming languages and is modular in structure, to fit the specific needs of certain usage scenarios or lectures. Codescape was developed with the intention of levelling out the initially heterogeneous skill level of the students and giving beginners a playful and small-stepped introduction to imperative programming without the requirement to set up a local tool chain as it is completely browser based. In this article the game itself, architecture, authoring tools and our survey results are presented.
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Gamper, P., Schroeder, U. (2023). Codescape - Development and Operation of a Serious Game for Teaching Programming in Introductory Courses. In: Haahr, M., Rojas-Salazar, A., Göbel, S. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14309. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44751-8_26
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