Computer games became daily routine to young generation. Especially games with social interactions are building strong cultures to young students. Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), "debugger" is developed to utilize this new culture for education. Introduction to Computer Programming is a challenging course for majority of students as concepts are abstract, non-intuitive and completely new to most of them. Considering the serious decline of CS major students across US, developing publicly available educational games for CS students is a timely effort. Debugger game aims to build a collection of educational mini games within a community of learners. Within the virtual world of debugger game, players fight with bugs by solving problems, play "CodeGame" to earn resources to build their own motherboard space, interact with other players via chatting, friends list, reputation list and other features. The debugger game is intended to take advantage of social interactions and community to retain players longer, promote players to solve more quests, and encourage players to discuss and learn from each other more actively, as recommended in peering learning or peer tutoring. The debugger game is up and running and a game client can be downloaded for playing at http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~debugger.
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