RoboRun: A gamification approach to control flow learning for young students with TouchDevelop
arXiv:1310.0810v111 citations
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This is an incremental approach to educational technology for young students learning programming.
The paper tackles teaching control flow to young students by introducing a gamified maze game using the TouchDevelop platform, resulting in an interactive learning environment for basic algorithms, ordering, and loops.
This demo paper introduces young students to writing code in a touch enabled interactive maze game. Problem-based learning is given a gamified approach to learning, while simultaneously introducing the TouchDevelop platform to build basic first control flow algorithms and to learn about ordering and loops in conditional statements.