Making Connections: Writing Stories and Writing Code
Reneta Lansiquot, Cándido Cabo · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 2016
Interdisciplinary competence should be an integral part of undergraduate education. The development of interdisciplinary skills expands students’ perspectives and blurs differences between general education and major courses, preparing them to be better problem-solvers in an increasingly complex and connected world. This chapter describes the design, development, and teaching of an interdisciplinary course linking creative writing and computational thinking for non-computer majors. In this interdisciplinary course, students develop original stories which they then implement as a video game prototype using computer programming. Via interdisciplinary connections between writing stories and writing computer code, even non-computer majors acquire computational thinking concepts and skills.