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The Leisure of Serious Games: A Dialogue

by Geoffrey M. Rockwell, Kevin Kee Abstract This dialogue was performed by Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell and Dr.
http://www.grandtheftchildhood.com/GTC/Home.html “I don’t know if it’s an addiction, but he’s just glued to it. I think most parents are concerned about it. It’s the same with my daughter with her laptop computer in her room; instead of using the telephone, she’s on that, and I can’t be watching the both of them all the time to see if they’re talking to strangers, or to see if someone is getting killed in the other room on the PlayStation. It's just nerve-wracking!” --A Massachusetts mother of twins <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>

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Object-oriented programming ( OOP ) is a programming paradigm that represents concepts as " objects " that have data fields (attributes that describe the object) and associated procedures known as methods . Objects, which are usually instances of classes , are used to interact with one another to design applications and computer programs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ edit ] Overview In programming languages an object is the composition of nouns (like data such as numbers, strings, or variables) and verbs (like actions, such as functions). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

Object-oriented programming

Culture 7 talks on the benefits of gaming This weekend, hundreds of video games enthusiasts lined up in the cold, waiting 12 hours-plus to be the first to get their hands on Nintendo’s new console, the Wii U. And when the game Call of Duty: Black Ops was released in 2010, gamers around the world played it for more than 600 million hours in ... TED.com video exists to celebrate great speakers, thinkers, doers — people with ideas that are passionately held and clearly put. http://blog.ted.com/2011/01/14/gaming-to-re-engage-boys-in-learning-ali-carr-chellman-on-ted-com/

Gaming to re-engage boys in learning: Ali Carr-Chellman on TED