Gamification and Virtual Reality in Programming Education

Programming education is as challenging as it is important in the context of modern society and its digital infrastructure. Both teachers and their students are faced with a number of challenges when trying to educate about this complex skill. Development of new technologies has provided teachers with new possible tools that can be used in programming education to help students gain interest and greater level of comprehension of programming. Gamification and virtual reality are promising platforms that can be utilized in education since they provide additional level of engagement and are something that students have encountered during their leisure time when playing various videogames. In this paper, an overview of gamification and virtual reality in the context of programming education is given and research results about students’ attitude towards gamification and virtual reality in programming education are presented and elaborated.