Using games to teach programming

Author

Karel, Perutka ; Petr, Hanacek ; Tomas, Shejbal

Author_Institution

Fac. of Appl. Inf., Tomas Bata Univ. in Zlin, Zlin, Czech Republic

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 31 2013-Nov. 1 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The paper deals with the usage of games to attract and practice the knowledge of participants of a course in which the basics of MATLAB programming are taught. There were created several games for that purpose, the paper presents two of them. These games were used for educational purposes in last years and they were positively evaluated by the course participants. The students are more motivated, they carefully watch the source code and remember it easily, which helps them in future, in the future programming. The computer games summarize several parts of the basic course programming, such as conditions, cycles, working with files etc.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; computer science education; programming; source code (software); teaching; MATLAB programming; basic course programming; computer games; source code; teaching; Engineering education; Games; MATLAB; Programming profession; MATLAB; computer games; programming; teaching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Education (CISPEE), 2013 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for

Conference_Location

Porto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1219-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISPEE.2013.6701990

Filename

6701990