Enhancing Programming Education Through Gamification

The field of programming education has witnessed a growing demand for innovative and engaging teaching methods to effectively impart coding skills. This paper explores the potential of gamification as a promising approach to address this challenge. Gamification, the integration of game elements and mechanics offers a unique avenue to make programming education more interactive and motivating. The research conducted an experiment with first year students taking introductory to programming course at University of Ruse. The game was developed within the UNITe (Universities for Science, Informatics and Technologies in eSociety) project.