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Nowadays, many people search for programmer jobs, but some
end up showing difficulties in learning programming. This paper
presents the serious game HowToBeACoffeeDrinker, developed as
a final paper for a college graduation, that seeks to help the learning
of basic concepts of programming and took as an educational
basis Merrill’s First Principles...
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... regard to the game's interface, it consists of a first person view in where players move around a building with diverse rooms, each one containing a task. The interface also has a window used for direct interaction between game and player, in where concepts are shown and tasks are performed. This window, that can be seen in the Fig. 2, appears always when players press a specific key, leaving his field of view free to interact with the game's environ- ment when he is not seeing a ...
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