DESENVOLVIMENTO E AVALIAÇÃO DO PROJETOÉDEN, UM JOGO EDUCACIONAL SOBRE VARIÁVEIS E TIPOS DE DADOS

Educational games are presented as pedagogical resources usedboth to facilitate the teaching of new content and to consolidateprevious knowledge. This approach, in addition to possessinghigh level of responsiveness on the part of students, bringsplayful features to specific content, thereby facilitatinglearning. Considering the difficulties of beginners in thearea of programming and seeking to take advantage of theeducational benefits of the games, the present work presents theprojetoEden, a digital educational game for the teachingand learning of variables and types of data. The work centerson development methodology used in creating the game, basedon the concept of evolutionary prototype, and exposes the resultsobtained with the use of the game into two classes of computercourse, of IFBA, campus Jacobina.