Iron Ears: initial impressions of an educational game for teaching linear data structure
Abstract
Due to the technological evolution, different kinds of educational software have been gaining even more space in classrooms. Among them, there are the educational games, which promote both entertainment and ludic learning. Considering the struggle students from computing areas have to learn data structures, the game Iron Ears: Data Structure was chosen to be used in the course Data Structures 1 in the college Program of Technology in Analysis and Systems Development at Federal University of Parana (UFPR). After carrying out experiments, it was possible to notice Iron Ears helped in student retention and it helped to improve their understanding of the content, this conclusion was based on final scores achieved by students and their attendance.
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