{"id":533,"date":"2010-08-06T18:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2010-08-25T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T02:04:43","slug":"cs-news-gamers-help-solve-medical-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/cs-news-gamers-help-solve-medical-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"CS News &#8211; Gamers Help Solve Medical Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwnews.org\/article.asp?articleid=59530\">Gamers Help Solve Medical Problems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fold.it\/portal\/\">Protein Game Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is really cool!\u00a0 It makes sense to use a game to solve a problem as problem-solving is a essential part of playing any game.<br \/>\nI have made several posts about using games to teach Computer Science and the benefits.\u00a0 I have been using basic games, complex games, and the theory and logic behind them to teach Computer Science and problem-solving concepts in my classes for a long time.\u00a0 Games, like bowling, are just good family fun.\u00a0 Games are interesting and get students excited and they require serious thought and planning to build.\u00a0 I have my students build a sliding puzzle project in <a href=\"www.apluscompsci.com\/gridworld.htm\">GridWorld<\/a> and use it as a stepping stone to talk about using priority queues and the A* algorithm to write an automated solver.\u00a0 The A* algorithm is a fun algorithm to learn and can be used for lots of different games and such. \u00a0 Yes, I did just use algorithm and fun in the same sentence and meant to do it!\u00a0 The games are the hook and the rest of the concepts just fall into place.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"www.apluscompsci.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sliding Puzzle Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/sliding_puzzle_half.png\" alt=\"Sliding Puzzle Image\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sliding Puzzle Image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamers Help Solve Medical Problems Protein Game Site This is really cool!\u00a0 It makes sense to use a game to solve a problem as problem-solving is a essential part of playing any game. I have made several posts about using games to teach Computer Science and the benefits.\u00a0 I have been using basic games, complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,23,24,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}