CIS CURRICULUM WITH AN EMPHASIS ON GAME PROGRAMMING, IS IT PRACTICAL?

The authors conduct this study based on a hypothesis that the game industry can benefit from career-oriented CIS curriculums that understand the demanding knowledge and skills of game programming. The objective of this paper is to answer the followingquestions: How do IS (including CIS) curriculums and game programming intersect? Can a CIS curriculum provide graduate with immediate applicable job-related programming skills? However, this is not a project to improve education technology; this is a project that will contribute the nurturing of future game programmers with capability of innovation and creativity. The authors also present preliminary findings of experiments used to test the hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]