Teaching Programming Concepts Using Educational Robotics, Supported by the Arduino Platform: An Application in the Industrial Computer Learning Course

Abstract

It is extremely important to create / use new concepts in the educational field, as facilitators of knowledge. In particular, the application of the concept of educational robotics, for the teaching of the basic knowledge of programming, constitutes an interesting alternative of teaching-learning. Through this proposal, interventions were applied in the teaching methodology currently employed in SENAI-Chapecó. In this way, the student obtained the same knowledge, but in a new way, hoping that he will understand programming concepts more easily. This methodology was applied in the AI course in Computer Science in the Program Concepts discipline, where the analysis of the statistical results obtained through the Mann-Whitney test revealed that the interventions generated a statistically significant difference in the experimental group, with the mean experimental group was 26% higher in relation to the control group.