Teaching Aid Supporting the Tuition of Automation at Faculty of Applied Informatics

Abstract

The paper is focused on the description of the newly created teaching aid designed to support auto-tutoring in the field of basics of automation for full-time and mainly for distance curriculum at the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin. It deals with the Laplace transform, the description of the properties of the linear systems and the description of the systems in the frequency domain including their characteristics in the form of the game. The game was tested by students and positively evaluated by them in the form of the questionnaire. The paper includes the brief theoretical background, the description of the game specification, the game implementation, the game from the user's point of view, the short examples of the source codes, and the results of the evaluation using the questionnaire.