Binary Blaster: An Educational Game for Practicing Binary Number Conversions

摘要

Understanding of numbering systems, especially binary numbers, is of great importance in computer science and engineering education, but students have difficulties understanding such concepts. In addition, students' acquisition of new knowledge and skills may be enhanced by varying the presentation of instruction and by providing engaging activities, such as educational computer games, in which students build or practice those skills. This paper discusses an engaging educational game called Binary Blaster which has been designed for students to practice number conversion between decimal and binary numbers, as well as the results of a small exploratory survey on Binary Blaster with undergraduate computer science students.