Computer scientists develop video game that teaches how to program in Java Date: April 8, 2013 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Computer scientists have developed an immersive ...

The game was tested on a group of 10- to 12-year-old girls who had never done any programming before. After an hour of gameplay, the girls had mastered some of the basic components of Java.

"I tried to persuade my son to learn a programming language, but he wasn't having it," said Mark Little, CTO at JBoss. That reluctance disappeared after his son started playing Minecraft, or, more ...