Cooking code: juego para aprender a programar con realidad virtual

Abstract

[eng] The present project focuses on creating an educational game that allows kids, between the ages of 12 and 16, to get involved in the programming world.Therefore, this game belongs to the serious games’s scoupe, wich have as main goal the education. The game is based on the metaphor of a Burger, set in a futuristic era where robots and humans coexist as equals. The player will be the chef of the restaurant, having to learn to read the orders that arrive and carry them out successfully. The main difficulty is that the requests do not arrive in natural language, but in a kind of pseudo-code. This context allows the user to find himself performing simple actions known as making a hamburger, focusing his attention on trying to understand the steps to be carried out through basic, conditional and iterative programming sentences. The chosen platform has been virtual reality, specifically the Oculus Quest. Apart from being a novel technology, it provides very important benefits such as immersion or achieving much more realistic interactions with the environment. As a result of all this, it seeks to create an innovative, fun game that puts the world of programming within the reach of new generations.