Percepção dos discentes sobre o uso do Software Pythontm na aplicação do Método de Euler para resolução de equações diferenciais

Abstract

The present study presented the use of the Euler method for the resolution of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) by undergraduate students of the course in Mathematical and Computational Methods Applied to Chemical Engineering, of Chemical Engineering from Federal University of Ceará (UFC) being made by two researches: field and bibliographical. The field research was developed with the students who study or studied the course, through an interview, in order to collect data. Regarding the goals envisaged by this work, highlight: students' perception of the use of software such Python for solving EDOs, verifying students' difficulties in using computational programming for problem solving, and teaching methodology gives more motivation for the student to learn the subject of the course. The results of this study were positive, because they showed that python enriched the student's education, enabling a better learning about numerical methods for resolution of ODEs with the application in the software and it was concluded that in engineering it is possible to learn in a different way from the traditional one. Therefore, it is important the use of active methodologies and software in an effective and continuous way in classes.