As a vivid gamer I always seek ways of using games for the ‘great good’ because I think nowadays many game mechanics can be supplanted in other aspects of life.
I’ve written several posts on these topics and what my vision on the whole ‘learning using game mechanics’ is. Specifically I am looking how achievements can be used to teach 19 year olds the ways of programming using the ‘language of games’ they understand.
Introduction
More information on why I think achievement-based learning can enhance a computer class: “World of C#-craft”: an achievement-based classroom?
- Results of a survey after explaining this idea are described in the next part: World of C#-craft part 2: what does the audience think?
- Some existing projects that do similar things: “World of C#-craft” part 3: other sources for inspiration as an interlude to Strokes
Strokes-project
I’m participating in the Strokes project (more info) were we are building a Visual Studio 2010 extension that enables users to earn achievements while coding in C#.
I explain the project in the following post when we the project was still in its very early pre-pre-pre alpha stage (august 2011): Strokes: achievements while programming!
- The next post (october 2011) explains the most recent additions to the project: Strokes: new features have arrived
Tim Dams 