Garcia, Dan and Bezakova, Ivona and Blank, Adam and Terrell, Neal (2021) Teaching Computer Science with Abstract Strategy Games. In: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery , New York, NY, pp. 1232-1233. ISBN 9781450380621. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210310-104208957
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Abstract Strategy Games are games of no chance with complete information - all players (usually two) know all there is about the current position; nothing is hidden. Examples of popular games are Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess, Checkers, Connect-4, Reversi, Mancala, Nim, Dots-and-Boxes, and Go; there are thousands more. In addition to the cultural history and remarkably beautiful mathematics locked within the strategies and game trees, we have found they form a wonderfully fertile, rich, and engaging source of activities around which to teach fundamentals of computer science. This panel will explore the ways in which we have used these games with our students, through interactive tutorials and reflection that will each surface a particular CS concept. After sharing best practices, we will invite the audience to contribute their own experiences.
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| Subject Keywords: | abstract strategy games, computational game theory, artificial intelligence, CS 1, CS 2, software engineering | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1145/3408877.3432572 | ||||||
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| Official Citation: | Dan Garcia, Ivona Bezakova, Adam Blank, and Neal Terrell. 2021. Teaching Computer Science with Abstract Strategy Games. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1232–1233. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432572 | ||||||
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