Is drawing video game characters in an hour of code activity a waste of time?

Ashok R. Basawapatna, Alexander Repenning, Mark Savignano, Josiane Manera, Nora A. Escherle, Lorenzo Repenning. Is drawing video game characters in an hour of code activity a waste of time?. In Irene Polycarpou, Janet C. Read, Panayiotis Andreou, Michal Armoni, editors, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2018, Larnaca, Cyprus, July 02-04, 2018. pages 93-98, ACM, 2018. [doi]

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  title = {Is drawing video game characters in an hour of code activity a waste of time?},
  author = {Ashok R. Basawapatna and Alexander Repenning and Mark Savignano and Josiane Manera and Nora A. Escherle and Lorenzo Repenning},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1145/3197091.3197136},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3197091.3197136},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/BasawapatnaRSME18},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {93-98},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2018, Larnaca, Cyprus, July 02-04, 2018},
  editor = {Irene Polycarpou and Janet C. Read and Panayiotis Andreou and Michal Armoni},
  publisher = {ACM},
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