Juegos serios para formar en los conceptos del lenguaje Cuna experiencia en Fundamentos de Informática

Abstract

Despite the importance that computer thinking and programming have in the industrial field currently, the majority of the students consider that these competences have no relevance within their degrees, which causes absenteeism, lack of interest, and reduces the motivation and the engagement of the students within the related courses. Therefore, there is a need to make visible the importance that these competences have in the industrial scope, and to include new learning approaches that allow increasing motivation, interest, and participation of students in the learning process. Taking into consideration the advantages that the use of serious games contributes to the learning process, this work describes the experience of carrying out a serious games-based workshop to promote the learning of the basic concepts of the programming language C, and help the students to consolidate the knowledge acquired during the practices lessons of the course Computer Science Fundamentals. The obtained outcomes were satisfactory and provided positive evidence of the educational effectiveness of the use of serious games as tools to promote and enhance the concepts of programming in C.