«The Challenge of Introducing Coding in a Game»

Abstract

Coding skills keep gaining in importance, posing a big challenge for the education sector to keep up with helping young people acquire the skills that are needed in the modern world. We are addressing this issue by creating a game as an app which can teach young people computational thinking and coding. Our focus is on creating a game which is attractive enough for learners to want to play it. In addition we want to make certain that it appeals to female learners, so we intentionally avoid topics such as robots, as is common with most of these kinds of approaches. We also want to put a focus on leading learners into the game in small steps that can teach them why coding is useful and make them want to embrace coding in order to be more successful in the game. In this presentation we will take a closer look at the game concept and at the challenges for achieving the learning goals.

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