Enriching Computer Science Programming Classes with Arduino Game Development

Duch, Piotr; Jaworski, Tomasz

doi:10.1109/hsi.2018.8430994

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“…Serrano-Pérez et al [35] showed that the integration of free educational software and low-cost electronic and mechanical devices as teaching and learning tools promotes increasing confidence, performance, and interest in engineering students. Finally, because of the affordable price and availability of Arduino, students without practical skills or knowledge in electronics can create simple applications beyond their capabilities in traditional console-based programming courses [36].…”

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Exploiting Arduino Features to Develop Programming Competencies

Tupac-Yupanqui

Vidal-Silva²,

Pavesi-Farriol

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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Developing programming competencies is essential for systems, information science, computer science, and electrical engineering students. Engineering students usually face the complexity of working with programming languages that demand compliance with syntactic and semantic rules, which typically represent a daunting task for novice students. Watching textual messages on the screen only, like the classic "hello world" is no longer attractive in the current information society, a missing motivation and possible obstacle to developing programming competencies. Students would like to interact with hardware and appreciate environmental reactions. Arduino board permits developing solutions like that. This article presents the academic experience of first-year students of Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática at the Universidad Continental (ISI-UC) of Huancayo, Perú, using the Arduino microcontroller board for the teaching-learning process to develop programming competencies. The results obtained show a positive impact regarding the previous year's experience using traditional text-based programming languages. Using Arduino, students create digital circuits and computational electronics competencies, another significant benefit. This experience used an online simulator, and the results obtained permit us to plan future online education strategies for this major. Next step will be the application of Arduino and the online simulator to deepen the programming competencies including recursivity, real time constraints , multitasking features, data structure and object-oriented programming. The main limitations encountered in this experiment were the student limitations regarding electronics concepts in order to build up circuits and in in some cases low internet speeds to attend online education. Performing simulated experiences in classes were not a big challenge for teachers and most students. Nevertheless, problems could appear when performing practical experiences using real Arduino boards, which would may not be available in traditional classes.

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Exploiting Arduino Features to Develop Programming Competencies

Tupac-Yupanqui

Vidal-Silva²,

Pavesi-Farriol

et al. 2022

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“…The low-level nature of those devices makes it possible to easily expand their capabilities by various available input/output modules. Using Arduino in the learning process on how to design one's own system is an approach whose aim is to improve programming skills among novice students [23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

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Teaching programming using dedicated Arduino Educational Board

Perenc

Jaworski

Duch

2019

Comp Applic In Engineering

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This paper presents a new approach to teaching programming to undergraduate computer science students. A dedicated Arduino board along with custom application programming interface (API) was introduced into programming classes with a view to strengthen students’ engagement and improving the attractiveness of the course. The students were presented with basic functionalities of the board, which gave them a possibility to accomplish their own projects—typically video games—without any background in electronics. The level of engagement of the participants was observed by the tutors during classes and also reviewed based on questionnaires filled by 347 first‐, second‐, and third‐year undergraduates. The results indicated that the proposed approach was well received by nearly 80%, while nearly 75% of the participants expressed a wish to continue their Computer Science education using Arduino.

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“…Los autores resaltan el alto grado de motivación que mostraron los estudiantes. En el trabajo de Duch y Jaworski [5] se presenta la experiencia en Lodz University of Technology (Polonia) que haciendo uso de Arduino pretende hacer más atractivo el aprendizaje de programación mediante la expansión de la interacción con dispositivos como joysticks, elementos emisores de luz, teclados y comunicaciones por radio.…”

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Enseñanza de Programación con Arduino: Una Experiencia de Proyectos en Ingeniería Electrónica

Vidal

Zegarra

2019

Proceedings of the 17th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology: “Industry, Innovation

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Teaching programming courses can be considered challenging for those who teach the subject. The difficulty of programming together with the lack of knowledge when dealing with students who are in the first year of studies makes the challenge even greater. In the career of Electronic Engineering of the National University of San Agustín the use of Arduino has been incorporated to teach the main programming concepts oriented to electronics. Students program components aimed at solving problems related to their profession. The first results have shown the effectiveness in the use of Arduino. We believe that our experience can be replicated not only in other Electronic Engineering careers, but in any engineering that I have programming courses guiding the development of the projects to the relevant contexts of each engineering. Abstract-La enseñanza de los cursos de programación pueden ser considerados desafiantes para los que enseñan la materia. La dificultad propia de la programación junto con la falta de conocimiento cuando se trata de alumnos que se encuentran en el primer año de estudios hace que el desafío sea aún mayor. En la carrera de Ingeniería Electrónica de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín se ha incorporado el uso de Arduino para enseñar los principales conceptos de programación orientados a la electrónica. Los alumnos programan componentes orientados a solucionar problemas relacionados a su profesión. Los primeros resultados han mostrado la efectividad en el uso de Arduino. Creemos que nuestra experiencia puede ser replicada no sólo en otras carreras de Ingeniería Electrónica, sino en cualquier ingeniería que tengo cursos de programación orientando el desarrollo de los proyectos a los contextos pertinentes de cada ingeniería

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Enriching Computer Science Programming Classes with Arduino Game Development

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Exploiting Arduino Features to Develop Programming Competencies

Exploiting Arduino Features to Develop Programming Competencies

Teaching programming using dedicated Arduino Educational Board

Enseñanza de Programación con Arduino: Una Experiencia de Proyectos en Ingeniería Electrónica

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