An Interactive Bomberman Game-Based Teaching/ Learning Tool for Introductory C Programming

Using an Online Serious Game to Teach Basic Programming Concepts and Facilitate Gameful Experiences for High School Students

“…Regarding RQ1 whether students improve their learning about programming concepts by using DFD-C the results validated H1 as students who used DFD-C significantly improved their learning of programming fundamentals compared to those who did not use it. This result is similar to the ones found in the experiments with other SGs such as Wu's Castle [23], SortingGame, SortingCasino, Secret rule and Draw and guess [24], Capital Tycoon [27], HIT Typing, Serious Cube and 3D action game [28], ProGames [30], The Odyssey of Phoenix [32], TIS-Q-SP [18] and Autothink [17]. However, the use of games in formal educational environments is not always successful [41].…”

“…The Odyssey of Phoenix [32] is a learning tool to improve the student's understanding of object-oriented programming such as encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism. The study was conducted with 20 randomly selected sophomore computer science students.…”