Gerador de jogos personalizados com labirintos para introdução à lógica de programação

Abstract

The teaching-learning algorithms and programming logic is challenging for both students and teachers, so that developing research, technologies and didactic strategies to support this process is a recurring theme. Games that offer logic and programming challenges have been successfully employed in this context, using visual programming features. A very common challenge in this type of game is the programming of the steps that a character must take to navigate a maze. Many websites offer variations of this type of challenge, such as Code.org, which provides resources for large-scale programming and logic learning with millions of participants worldwide. Even with variations, such challenges often do not allow customization in the scenery or the maze route, offering at most the selection of character characteristics. A greater level of customization is believed to collaborate to motivate and engage users, as in many games with more sophisticated features. In this context, the present work presents the development of a tool capable of generating a customized game containing labyrinths, aiming to motivate the learning of fundamental concepts of programming logic. In this application, it is possible to build custom scenarios and labyrinths, filling a gap observed in other games of this type.