A game concept using conflictive animations for learning programming

Learning programming with animations is not considered fun and does not engage all students in using them. On the other hand, games have potential to attract all cohorts of students and to make them learn, apparently effortless, while they are immersed in playing. Conflictive animations are those pu...

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Main Authors: Moreno, Andres, Sutinen, Erkki, Islas Sedano, Carolina
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Animation
Education
Games
Java
Programming profession
Visualization
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Summary:Learning programming with animations is not considered fun and does not engage all students in using them. On the other hand, games have potential to attract all cohorts of students and to make them learn, apparently effortless, while they are immersed in playing. Conflictive animations are those purposely created to have an error in them. To combine conflictive animations and games a list of heuristics is applied to an existing program animation tool to create the concept of an innovative educational game. The result combines the creation of conflictive animations by the students and the resolution of the conflicts by their peers on an online platform.
ISSN:2166-6741
DOI:10.1109/IGIC.2013.6659161