This exploratory study investigates student attitudes towards culturally-oriented educational games for practicing computer programming, where the mainstream culture appeals to all of the students irrespective of their cultural background. We show that a shared appreciation of culture along the lines of humour promotes positive student attitude towards culturally-aware game based learning which in turn is useful for developing proficiency in specific programming skills such as error detection and correction. Details of the exploratory study undertaken using culturally-oriented educational game prototypes are described, along with the results of the study. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Mohammed, P., & Mohan, P. (2009). Student attitudes towards using culturally-oriented educational games to improve programming proficiency: An exploratory study. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5670 LNCS, pp. 196–207). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03364-3_26
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