Prog-Poly: jogo de tabuleiro baseado no monopoly para ajudar nos estudos de linguagem de programação e engenharia de software

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Luciano Rovanni do
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UTFPR (da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (RIUT))
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/30235
• topic: Linguagem de programação (Computadores); Engenharia de software; Jogos de tabuleiro; Programming languages (Electronic computers); Software engineering; Board games; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO; Ciência da Computação

Looking at the 2020 software development landscape, it was found that only 31% of software projects worldwide were successfully completed. In addition to this, the learning of programming languages is considered difficult by the students of Higher Education in Computing. The main reasons for this fact, according to the students, are: abstraction, logical reasoning, rigor in the use of programming languages. Thus, this work presents a board game called Prog-poly, based on the mechanics of the classic Monopoly board game, to try to mitigate the facts reported by the students and, consequently, be used as a support tool to help students in the development of skills and competences related to Introduction to Software Engineering (IES) and also to Introduction to C Programming Language (ILPC). In order to search the related works, a Systematic Review of the literature was carried out on which games were developed to assist in the studies of Programming Language (LP) and Software Engineering (ES). A Prog-Poly Player Performance Analysis Software was also developed, for participants to store match data and thus be able to analyze their performance during each match. To validate the Prog-poly board game, a quasi-experiment was carried out with students of the master's degree in ES to compare its efficiency with traditional teaching methods in LP learning, student motivation and fun. After the quasi- experiment, the participants answered a questionnaire with questions about Prog-poly, with questions about the quality of the game's construction, mechanics, game difficulty and the luck factor. With the analysis of the answers to the questionnaire, the following data were obtained: 95% of the students answered that the Prog-poly motivates the studies of LP, 85% answered that the game helps the students to develop the skills and competences related to LP, 80% considered the game a less tiring form of study. This evidence demonstrates that the board game can help in studies, in addition to making classes more motivating.