The Turing Trials : proposta de elaboração de um jogo educacional para melhorar o aprendizado em máquinas abstratas e teoria da computação.

Abstract

Gamification is a topic that spreads more and more inside the professional and educational scopes. As time goes by, companies, schools, and universities worldwide implement gamification to optimize learning, improve knowledge about a specific field, and provide necessary practise in risk-free environments. However, the concept is still very recent and there are many areas of expertise that still don’t benefit from its application, including formal languages, automata theory and theory of computation areas. This project seeks to present a gamification application inside the context of formal languages, automata theory and theory of computation through an educational game that stimulates the practice of the content covered by these areas. To create that application, a case study was made, which seeks to evaluate the actual situation of this technology’s development, its main merits and flaws. After this, the study is contextualized inside the environment mentioned above, sugesting a gamification project inside the finite state machine’s scope. Finally, the contextualization results are used in a software project to develop a practical module that can offer a support tool for the learning of the mentioned subjects and the distinctive engagement of a gamified computer program.