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Title:
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TEACHING A PRELIMINARY DATABASE COURSE BY GAME DESIGN |
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Author(s):
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Ben Liu |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-17-5 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Vol. II |
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Keywords:
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Game design, data modeling, curriculum design |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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77 |
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Last Page:
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80 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Data modeling is a key to understand how computer handles business logic, a prerequisite of the rest of database technologies. It is a difficult task for novice designer. These difficulties come mainly from the inherent complexity of modeling tasks. To engage students, this paper proposes a framework of organizing database technologies into a game design scenario. The game is based on the Romance of Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature and a household story in Sinosphere. Modeling this fiction makes technologies more accessible to students, so as to establish a model to explore the rest of the course. |
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