Interactive Teaching Material for the Discipline of Introduction to Computer Programming
Abstract
The Institute of Computing of the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) offers the discipline of Introduction to Computer Programming (IPC) for several courses in non-computer areas (known as non-CS majors), students of non-CS majors courses can face a lot of difficulty in the discipline, besides there is a lack of interest of these students in programming content, since computing is not the end activity of these courses. In order to arouse greater interest, a development project was initiated to adapt the presentation of slides used in the exhibition classes, transforming them into interactive didactic material. During the project, two classes were adapted, following the original slide show and modifying the code demonstration examples for detailed animations of their executions. Challenges have also been added where the student can enter or select answers that they deem correct, such as filling out a piece of code or selecting the programming structure that was requested in the example. The solutions of the challenges are presented next, seeking to ensure the understanding of the content of the material. In addition, the student is encouraged to program through examples that ask for code solutions to some problems. The student's responses and the pages they visit are recorded in the browser console log to be handled in the future and generate a detailed record of the use of the material. As a first evaluation, the first class was presented to the students and former students of IPC, as a prototype, in which we sought to verify the interest that the material aroused in the students about the content of the discipline. The research was made available to the academic community of UFAM through an e-mail invitation, being answered by about 40 surveyed. Finally, preliminary results were observed with the potential to arouse the interest of the students in relation to the interactive didactic material, in addition to relevant notes for improvements in the material.
Link to the presentation video (in Brazilian Portuguese): https://youtu.be/EUMyYj7ateM
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