Teaching Object-Oriented Software Engineering through Problem-Based Learning in the Context of Game Design

Ryoo, Jungwoo; Fonseca, Frederico; Janzen, David S.

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“…In that course, students were required to implement a small-tomedium scale interactive computer game in one semester, making use of a game framework. Similar courses were also reported in [17][18]21]. We appreciate those approaches to teaching object-oriented programming with games, but we do believe that we should be careful with the selection of games, and don't be too ambitious at the initial point since our students are new programmers.…”

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Teaching Object-Oriented Programming with Games

Yan

2009

2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations

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???This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder." ???Copyright IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.??? DOI: 10.1109/ITNG.2009.13First-year students in CS/IT curriculum are often overwhelmed by the introduction to programming module, which is a mandatory component for the whole study program. In this paper, we discuss the difficulties students may encounter in this module and propose a novel approach to teaching programming to new programmer with games. We reflect on our experiences on making the programming module friendly and improving the success rate among new programmers. We present our learning theory, teaching methodology and assistive software with technical details

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Teaching Object-Oriented Programming with Games

Yan

2009

2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations

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“…Other teaching approaches can co-exist and complement flip teaching such as Project-Based Learning. 4 In our case the work in the classroom is more based on Problem-Based Learning 5 and its generalization known as Activity-Led Instruction 6 .…”

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Flipping Game Development

Linares-Pellicer

Orta-Lopez

Izquierdo-Domenech

2018

IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Flipping Game Development This work describes the implementation of a flip teaching alternative in an introductory game development course, using resources from a MOOC (Massive Open On-Line Course). The results proved to achieve better grades and higher satisfaction to previous and similar lecture-based courses. Students nowadays have a profile that is generally different from that of a few years ago. They are accustomed to using the Internet and multimedia material to learn the things they need. They generally do not look at manuals or technical books, nor do they delve through great quantities of written information. They are much more likely watch videos and tutorials and then learn by doing rather than reading, using software that they instinctively know how to use from the first moment. They do not favour the traditional elements of teaching support if they have an alternative. They expect innovation in their learning process and may lose interest if they are not continually doing things.

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“…Figuera et al (2011) describe an educational project based on Problem Based Learning for Telecommunications students. Ryoo et al (2008) propose a Problem Based Learning curriculum centred on game development to deliver basic objectoriented programming concepts to software engineering students. Minovic et al (2012) analysed how to apply modern information technologies for developing game-based learning platform for education.…”

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An Approach to Teaching Introductory Programming for IT Professionals Using Games

Vassilev

2015

International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals

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This paper addresses the difficulties of teaching introductory programming to students in the field of information technologies and computer science. It reviews several existing approaches to make learning programming more attractive: using games or programmatically controlled hardware devices. The author believes that programming moving virtual actors motivates most of the students to learn programming. Moreover, seeing moving visual objects on the computer screen makes it easier for the students to perceive the mistakes in their code and correct them. However, writing such programs without any additional tools is not a task for a novice programmer. That is why this paper proposes an approach for teaching programming for IT professionals using a new game library, specially developed for training, which controls virtual models moving in a virtual environment. The system uses appealing 3D graphics to attract attention. Several sample programs, illustrating main features of this approach, are presented. Screenshots of the sample programs and results of teaching a pilot group of students are given at the end of the paper. Initial results show that the students enjoyed the course, most of them liked the game library approach better than the traditional one and do recommend using it in the future. More than half of the trainees improved their results.

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Teaching Object-Oriented Software Engineering through Problem-Based Learning in the Context of Game Design

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Teaching Object-Oriented Programming with Games

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An Approach to Teaching Introductory Programming for IT Professionals Using Games

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