Imersão total: um RPG educativo para apoiar a aprendizagem dos conceitos básicos de programação

Abstract

The difficulties presented by the students in programming disciplines, it is necessary that there is an initiative that seeks to encourage students in the practice of programming, so thus can develop their skills. Therefore, it is necessary to solve many lists of exercises, which can lead the student to demotivation, since this activity is monotonous and repetitive. There is the need to create a material that motivate and encourage students in their daily practice schedule and, therefore, we used the RPG (role-playing game) education as a feature to allow players to effectuation its activities and studies in a playful manner, strengthening and complementing the learning of the basic concepts of Java programming as type variables, conditional structure and repeating loop. The use of the game can motivate students to study, because they will be realizing a pleasurable activity while practicing the concepts learned. This work presents the design of an educational game with the aim to motivate students in the study of the initial subjects of Java programming to complement their studies.