Space Geeks: A Proposed Serious Game to Teach Array Concept for Novice Programming Students

Abdelbaset Assaf, Mohammed Eshtay, Lana Issa

2022

Abstract

The failure rates in introductory programming courses still shows that there is a continuous need in research to investigate and propose new methods and techniques of teaching introductory to programming courses to attract more people to the information technology field and build more skilled programmers from their first course. This study investigates students levels in multiple topics in introduction to programming, then, proposes a new science fiction themed game called Space Geeks. The game is initially designed to target arrays, and is extendable to cover more programming concepts. The design of this games helps students enhance their coding skills, gives motivation using game features, and helps them understand the arrays concept by visualisation and graphics. This work will open more insights to focus on further introductory topics such as arrays since that there has been other work to focus on other topics such as variables, input/output, and problem solving.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Assaf A., Eshtay M. and Issa L. (2022). Space Geeks: A Proposed Serious Game to Teach Array Concept for Novice Programming Students. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-613-2, pages 431-438. DOI: 10.5220/0011589200003318

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist22,
author={Abdelbaset Assaf and Mohammed Eshtay and Lana Issa},
title={Space Geeks: A Proposed Serious Game to Teach Array Concept for Novice Programming Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2022},
pages={431-438},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011589200003318},
isbn={978-989-758-613-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Space Geeks: A Proposed Serious Game to Teach Array Concept for Novice Programming Students
SN - 978-989-758-613-2
AU - Assaf A.
AU - Eshtay M.
AU - Issa L.
PY - 2022
SP - 431
EP - 438
DO - 10.5220/0011589200003318