Identifying my class” pedagogical strategy for teaching object-oriented programming concepts
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https://doi.org/10.18041/1909-2458/ingeniare.34.10983Keywords:
OOP, classes, methods, gamification, programmingAbstract
The teaching and learning of programming concepts are part of the pillars of training professionals in the software area. This research aims to identify and study the problems of the teaching-learning process of object-oriented programming. The findings of the research evidenced the difficulty on the part of the student to assimilate the concept of "method". The research included a systematic literature review of studies that have addressed teaching processes in the area of software development and presented solutions to the analyzed problems. As a result of the research, a pedagogical strategy called "identifying my class", based on gamification, was proposed. Identifying my class aims to facilitate understanding of basic concepts of the object-oriented paradigm in students. Finally, the strategy was applied in two test groups to analyze the results using the Wilcoxon test
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