Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Programming Challenges in Educational Games: How they shape Children’s Computational Thinking, Learning Drive, and Game Engagement

Baijun Chen; Yushan Pan; Nan Xiang; Shenze Huang

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Programming Challenges in Educational Games: How they shape Children’s Computational Thinking, Learning Drive, and Game Engagement

Baijun Chen
, Yushan Pan
, Nan Xiang
, Shenze Huang

Department of Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2026 The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2026

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Chen, B., Pan, Y., Xiang, N., & Huang, S. (Accepted/In press). Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Programming Challenges in Educational Games: How they shape Children’s Computational Thinking, Learning Drive, and Game Engagement. In 2026 The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

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