Identifying Meaningful Gamification-Based Elements Beneficial to Novice Programmers

• Main Authors: Agapito, Jenilyn, Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: gamification; novice programmers; CS1; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/53; http://icce2018.ateneo.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/C5-12.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Gamification is defined as the use of game design elements in non-game contexts to encourage certain behaviors. It is becoming a popular intervention used in computer science learning environments, including CS1. However, prior works have mostly implemented reward-based game elements which have resu...