Teaching Programming Concepts by Developing Games

Abstract: Learning to program could possibly be analogous to acquiring expertise in abstract mathematics, which may be boring or dull for a majority of students. Thus, among the countless options to approach learning coding [1-14], acquiring concepts through game creation could possibly be the most enriching experience for students. Consequently, it is important to select a lucid and familiar game for students. Then, the following step is to choose a language that introduces the basic concepts of object-oriented programming really well. For this paper, we chose the game of Tic-Tac-Toe, which is straight-forward for most people. The programming language chosen here is C++.