Abordagem híbrida para o ensino do desenvolvimento de jogos digitais e programação

Abstract

Learning to develop digital games is a common theme of interest for those who intend to take their first steps in learning how to program. A lot of curricular units that introduce programming already use the development of small games to captivate their students' interest. However, in most programming introductory courses, game development is not covered in much length. In a similar way, in most game development introductory courses, programming is taken as a given and is not covered or game engines are used that don't require previous experience with programming and where a high level approach is used with graphical metaphors. The purpose of this project consists in creating a activity plan and a set of pedagogical contents that simultaneously drive the learning of programming and game development skills. It is intended that the set of contents that result from this work are usable in self learning processes (e-learning) or supervised learning (b-learning).