A Roadmap to Gamify Programming Education

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Swacha, J (Author) Other; Ricardo Queiros (Author) Other; Paiva, JC (Author) Other; José Paulo Leal (Author) FCUP; Kosta, S (Author) Other; Montella, R (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: First International Computer Programming Education Conference, ICPEC 2020, June 25-26, 2020, ESMAD, Vila do Conde, Portugal (Virtual Conference).

Pages: 26:1-26:7

1st International Computer Programming Education Conference, ICPEC 2020

25 June 2020 through 26 June 2020

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Authenticus ID: P-00S-DE4

DOI: 10.4230/oasics.icpec.2020.26

Abstract (EN): Learning programming relies on practicing it which is often hampered by the barrier of difficulty. The combined use of automated assessment, which provides fast feedback to the students experimenting with their code, and gamification, which provides additional motivation for the students to intensify their learning effort, can help pass the barrier of difficulty in learning programming. In such environment, students keep receiving the relevant feedback no matter how many times they try (thanks to automated assessment), and their engagement is retained (thanks to gamification). While there is a number of open software and programming exercise collections supporting automated assessment, up to this date, there are no available open collections of gamified programming exercises, no open interactive programming learning environment that would support such exercises, and even no open standard for the representation of such exercises so that they could be developed in different educational institutions and shared among them. This gap is addressed by Framework for Gamified Programming Education (FGPE), an international project whose primary objective is to provide necessary prerequisites for the application of gamification to programming education, including a dedicated gamification scheme, a gamified exercise format and exercises conforming to it, software for editing the exercises and an interactive learning environment capable of presenting them to students. This paper presents the FGPE project, its architecture and main components, as well as the results achieved so far. 2012 ACM Subject Classification Social and professional topics ! Computer science education.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific