Title
Turing Project: An Open Educational Game to Teach and Learn Programming Logic
Date Issued
01 June 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Abstract
The paper proposes an open educational game, for students who have never had contact or who present some difficulty in programming logic. The game, in a playful and fun way, tries to teach the basics of programming logic for the students, allowing the same to acquire knowledge during the gameplay. The game proposed in this paper is called 'Turing Project', a RPG game, in which the student will play the role of the game's hero. By collecting scrolls, items and performing missions, students are expected to learn the concepts related to the logic of programming. A subjective experiment was carried out via a survey with 19 users and the main conclusions points out that students had good experiences during the game, which had positive impact in their learning.
Volume
2020-June
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la información
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85089032679
ISBN
9789895465903
Source
Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
Resource of which it is part
Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
ISSN of the container
21660727
Source funding
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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