Beyond Minecraft: Facilitating Computational Thinking through Modeling and Programming in 3D
Alexander Repenning, David Christopher Webb, Catharine Brand, Fred Gluck, Ryan Grover, Susan Beth Miller, Hilarie Nickerson, Muyang Song · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications · 2014
Visual programming in 3D sounds much more appealing than programming in 2D, but what are its benefits? Here, University of Colorado Boulder educators discuss the differences between 2D and 3D regarding three concepts connecting computer graphics to computer science education: ownership, spatial thinking, and syntonicity.