A influência do dojo de programação no ensino de práticas ágeis

Abstract

Coding Dojo is a dynamic and collaborative activity inspired by martial arts where you can practice programming, especially techniques related to agile methods. The existing teaching methods treat all students the same way. Each person has a story, experiences, skills, knowledge. Rarely the particularities of each individual are respected. The purpose of this research is to verify the influence of the Coding Dojo in teaching agile practices. The Coding Dojo offers the required resources to academic teaching computer programming? To answer the question surveys were conducted with novice and active participants of Coding Dojo, also spontaneous participants in groups of Coding Dojo and students who attended compulsorily in a Coding Dojo during a class of a regular discipline of one specialization course in Federal Technological University of Paraná. Interviews were conducted with experts organizers of meetings of Coding Dojo. Strengths, such as student participation and weaknesses, as not being a suitable practice for presenting theoretical contents were considered. The obtained results suggest that the activity can be used complementary in computer programming disciplines to increase student participation and allow the teacher to know the difficulties and facilities of each student individually.