The Effectiveness of Games as Assignments in an Introductory Programming Course

Cliburn, Daniel C.

doi:10.1109/fie.2006.322314

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“…Other papers report attempts to improve student engagement through changes in the assessment process, introducing assessment practices and cycles such as feedback-revision-resubmission [262]; contexts that are meaningful to students [292]; contexts that correspond to the real world [344]; the use of tools and equipment, such as 3D printers [316] and robot olympics [582], that can grab attention while facilitating creativity; emphasising the utility of computing through simulated research [493]; tapping into social computing paradigms earlier in introductory programming [592]; and game development [130].…”

Section: Student Engagement Student Engagement In Introductorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Luxton-Reilly

Simón

Albluwi

et al. 2018

Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the literature on introductory programming is growing. Although there have been several reviews that focus on specific aspects of introductory programming, there has been no broad overview of the literature exploring recent trends across the breadth of introductory programming.This paper is the report of an ITiCSE working group that conducted a systematic review in order to gain an overview of the introductory programming literature. Partitioning the literature into papers addressing the student, teaching, the curriculum, and assessment, we explore trends, highlight advances in knowledge over the past 15 years, and indicate possible directions for future research.

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Section: Student Engagement Student Engagement In Introductorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Luxton-Reilly

Simón

Albluwi

et al. 2018

Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

361

127

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“…Previous work has demonstrated encouraging indicators with respect to game-based assignments as opposed to more traditional assignments [6,5].…”

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Addressing industry issues in a multi-disciplinary course on game design

Estey

Gooch

2009

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games

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Over the past few years, games courses have been gaining in popularity, as there has been growing evidence showing positive enrollment and student engagement results. Nevertheless, new graduates still lack critical teamwork and problemsolving skills required by industry employers. Building upon other game programs that had successful results, we present a game design course developed to attract students of all disciplines. Our course is different because we focus on three main issues directly associated with new graduates entering industry: cooperative learning, peer review, and orientation with a pre-existing large code base. A quantitative analysis reveals both a positive and negative impact on students' interests, in particular within a cohort of non-Computer Science majors. A qualitative analysis reveals the ways in which students were influenced by a course design where assessment was aligned with key industry issues.

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“…Uma experiência apresenta uma abordagem de programação introdutória com jogos textuais e numéricos como criptogramas, busca de palavras e adivinhação de números [Rajaravivarma 2005]. Um outro trabalho compara duas aborda-IX Congresso Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (CBIE 2020) Anais do XXVI Workshop de Informática na Escola (WIE 2020) gens de programação introdutória (jogos textuais e numéricos versus exercícios tradicionais) e, embora não tenha havido melhora nos resultados, a motivação foi maior, assim como os estudantes preferiram os jogos aos exercícios tradicionais [Cliburn 2006].…”

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Computação e o Mundo: Uma Proposta de Educação em Computação para o Nono Ano do Ensino Fundamental II

Araujo¹,

Santana²,

Bittencourt³

2020

Anais Do XXVI Workshop De Informática Na Escola (WIE 2020)

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Este artigo descreve uma proposta curricular e um livro didático de computação para o nono ano do Ensino Fundamental II brasileiro, construídos a partir de diretrizes e referenciais curriculares da área, objetivando popularizar a adoção da computação na educação básica. O livro combina simulações em uma linguagem de blocos, manipulação de imagens através de uma linguagem de programação textual, o desenvolvimento de jogos textuais e a construção de protótipos baseados em hardware livre, utilizando contextos familiares aos estudantes e uma abordagem de aprendizagem em espiral.

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The Effectiveness of Games as Assignments in an Introductory Programming Course

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Addressing industry issues in a multi-disciplinary course on game design

Computação e o Mundo: Uma Proposta de Educação em Computação para o Nono Ano do Ensino Fundamental II

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