From Android games to coding in C—An approach to motivate novice engineering students to learn programming: A case study

Dolgopolovas, Vladimiras; Jevsikova, Tatjana; Dagienė, Valentina

doi:10.1002/cae.21862

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“…These findings tend to lend support to prior programming game-based learning ones obtained in higher education domain [31], [33].…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Dolgopolovas, Jevsikova and Dagiene [31] indicated in their study evaluating the learning experience of 24 first year engineering students attending an introductory course in C programming language that more than half of the students were successful in providing at least one correct answer out of 5 questions introduced for appropriate matching between game application and programming language code concepts, after their gameplay exercise.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Computer Programming: A Case Study of Teaching Loop Statement by Using an Interactive Educational Game

Makri¹,

Choudhary²,

Muntean³

2019

IJDS

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Many European countries reported a decline in the number of students who choose STEM subjects as their future career. This is due many to the fact that STEM subjects are perceived as being difficult and boring. This paper presents findings of a case study that made use of an educational game (called Loop) to teach the loop statement in a Software Development module. The game was deployed as part of the NEWTON project large scale Programming pilot run at National College of Ireland (NCI) as part of Higher Diploma in Computing-a level 8 conversion degree, during the academic year 2018/2019. 34 mature students (over 23 years old) that already hold a third level educational degree took part in the study. Pre-and post-game assessments and post-game questionnaire were employed while the Loop game was used as part of the lab sessions. Research findings indicate that majority of the students achieved improved knowledge performance in Java programming language coding of the loop statement. The positive assessment outcomes are discussed together with students' feedback in terms of game design and game usability provided in the questionnaire.

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“…These findings tend to lend support to prior programming game-based learning ones obtained in higher education domain [31], [33].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Giannakoulas and Xinogalosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer Programming: A Case Study of Teaching Loop Statement by Using an Interactive Educational Game

Makri¹,

Choudhary²,

Muntean³

2019

IJDS

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“…Despite programming being very important to a Computing student, it is the one element of the Computing syllabus that is the hardest to teach and the hardest for students to learn (Apiola & Tedre, 2012;Bennedsen & Caspersen, 2008;Chetty & Barlow-Jones, 2014;Dekhane, Xu, & Tsoi, 2013;Dolgopolovas, Jevsikova, & Dagiene, 2017;Kalelioğlu, 2015;Ma, Ferguson, Roper, & Wood, 2011;Mladenović, Boljat, & Žanko, 2017;Robins et al, 2003;Sáez-López, Román-González, & Vázquez-Cano, 2016;Thomsen, 2008). In fact, at higher levels of education, programming courses have one of the highest dropout rates globally (Dekhane et al, 2013;Robins et al, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…MIT App Inventor 2 (AI2) is a free "visual, drag-and-drop tool for building mobile apps on the Android platform" (Wolber, Anderson, Spertus, & Looney, 2014, p. xiii) which can then be uploaded to the Google Play Store (Dolgopolovas et al, 2017). It offers the user several features to design a user interface according to what the user desires to create.…”

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confidence: 99%

Teacher Perspectives on Introducing Programming Constructs through Coding Mobile-Based Games to Secondary School Students

Attard¹,

Busuttil²

2020

Informatics in Education

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“…Theoretical knowledge gained by students can be implemented in real‐life applications , for example for building LEGO robots and thus the learned concepts can be practiced and motivation level increased, which is key in learning programming by engineering students and can be achieved through games and entertainment .…”

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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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From Android games to coding in C—An approach to motivate novice engineering students to learn programming: A case study

Abstract: This paper deals with the problem of overcoming difficulties and raising the motivation of novice engineering students studying programming. We consider this

Cited by 24 publications

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Computer Programming: A Case Study of Teaching Loop Statement by Using an Interactive Educational Game

Computer Programming: A Case Study of Teaching Loop Statement by Using an Interactive Educational Game

Teacher Perspectives on Introducing Programming Constructs through Coding Mobile-Based Games to Secondary School Students

Teaching programming using dedicated Arduino Educational Board

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