Programinó: um jogo para auxílio ao aprendizado do assunto de tipos de dados na programação

Abstract

The digital age we live in means that we are always immersed in ever more ubiquitous technologies. For this contact with technology to remain healthy, it is necessary to learn to consume it consciously, and to learn to develop it in different contexts; therefore, we will have increasingly inclusive solutions. Regarding solution development, as much as we have several facilitating artifacts, the process of programming teaching and learning is still a challenge, especially for beginning students. Dealing with so many competing and constant stimuli and still having the ability to abstract and assimilate programming concepts that is not trivial and has not been worked on since childhood, so playful artifacts such as digital games are essential to facilitate first contacts with the schedule. In this context, this work brings to society a digital educational game that deals with the subject of data types in programming, Programinó, so that beginning students can practice and consolidate the content through a playful tool. The game was developed with three levels of difficulty, one easy, one medium and one hard. The hard one applies the adapted minimax algorithm, while the easy one uses the same minimax adapted in an inverted way. The middle level uses a random algorithm. As a way to validate the difficulty levels, comparative experiments were performed that showed that the minimax lost only 5.6% of the time; winning at 49.7% or drawing in the remaining matches.