Jogo baralho das variáveis uma proposta de utilização de jogos para disciplina de Programação

Abstract

This study aims to develop a prototype game called Variable Deck, which is geared to assist in teaching the principles of initial programming discipline. To collect data in this research, in addition to literature review, a questionnaire was administered to students beginning undergraduate course in Information System, Class 2010, School of Computing, University Campus of Marabá, Federal University of Pará, and conducted a interview with faculty from colleges and technical institutions public within the city of Marabá, focused on finding the main difficulties in the teaching of programming. To test the prototype, a questionnaire was administered to students in the undergraduate program in Information Systems, class 2011, and these were divided into two groups and one of these groups played the prototype before answering the questionnaire. The group of students who played, had higher accuracy compared to the group of students who did not play. The study was positive, it was according to the literature review raised throughout the research showing that the use of tools that assist in teaching, can add to the content taught by the teacher.