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The Influence of Game-based Programming Education on the Algorithmic Thinking
- Source :
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 237:613-617
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Applied informatics engineering students of the undergraduate course Programming I get acquainted with the basic programming knowledge (structured programming) in C. Our earlier personal experiences in Higher Education showed that the majority of the students can not acquire the algorithmic thinking by following the traditional teaching process and they do not have too much chance to pass it. Our starting hypothesis was that the group where the students followed the game oriented exercises would achieve better results in the papers. After the semester we collected the paper results by groups and we tried to analyze whether this method was helpful or not for the students. The traditional way to teach programming for applied informatics engineering students was not so successful than the game-based examples. The students were more motivated to write game programs and more students could pass the test. It means by same learning material and test exercises the student who learned programming in game-based method could get more than one mark better paper results and pass the test in higher percent.
- Subjects :
- Multimedia
Higher education
Computer science
Process (engineering)
business.industry
05 social sciences
050301 education
Structured programming
computer.software_genre
01 natural sciences
Test (assessment)
010104 statistics & probability
Informatics engineering
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Mathematics education
Algorithmic thinking
General Materials Science
Personal experience
0101 mathematics
Game Developer
business
0503 education
computer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18770428
- Volume :
- 237
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ffedf60d3a59735a6316b1f56c10645e