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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.9
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92677
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2018/9267/
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Paiva, José Carlos ; Leal, José Paulo

Asura: A Game-Based Assessment Environment for Mooshak (Short Paper)

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Abstract

Learning to program is hard. Students need to remain motivated to keep practicing and to overcome their difficulties. Several approaches have been proposed to foster students' motivation. As most people enjoy playing games of some kind and play on a regular basis, the use of games is one of the most widely spread approaches. However, taking full advantage of games to teach specific concepts of programming requires much effort. This paper presents Asura, a game-based assessment environment built on top of Mooshak that challenges students to code Software Agents (SAs) to play a game, allowing them to test the SAs against each others' SAs and watch a movie of the test. Once the challenge development stage ends, teachers are able to organize game-like tournaments among SAs. One of the key features of Asura is that it provides a means to reduce the required effort of building game-based challenges up to that of creating traditional programming exercises.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{paiva_et_al:OASIcs:2018:9267,
  author =	{Jos{\'e} Carlos Paiva and Jos{\'e} Paulo Leal},
  title =	{{Asura: A Game-Based Assessment Environment for Mooshak (Short Paper)}},
  booktitle =	{7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies  (SLATE 2018)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:9},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-072-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{62},
  editor =	{Pedro Rangel Henriques and Jos{\'e} Paulo Leal and Ant{\'o}nio Menezes Leit{\~a}o and Xavier G{\'o}mez Guinovart},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9267},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92677},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: games, programming, learning, graphical feedback, tournament}
}

Keywords: games, programming, learning, graphical feedback, tournament
Collection: 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 13.07.2018

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