¹Magister Teknik Informatika, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
²Jl. Babarsari no. 42, Sleman, DIY, Indonesia.

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Abstract—Gamification is the use of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. Nowadays, gamification becomes a new method used in teaching and learning programming concepts. The fundamental target of gamification is to increase motivation, experience and engagement which leads to fun and delight for students. Most early students have difficulties to understand the concept of Oriented Object Programming (OOP) in Java. This paper shows that Gamification as new trend can be used to solve the above problem by helping learners become very enthusiast and it provides the platform for them to be creative. This paper aims to give an overview of gamification in learning context which can help students to attempt learning Java programming Language. Being aware of the vulnerability of programming language mainly Java by using game as fun activity. Data in this study is based on a qualitative analysis of documents such as journals, books and the like. The result proved that gamification can be implemented to motivate and encourage learners to improve their skills in computer programming because gamification in education makes learners to be more fun and facilitates understanding of the coursework.

Index Terms—Gamification, teaching, learning, java programming, beginner students.

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Cite:Jaouja Maiga, Andi Wahju Rahardjo Emanuel, "Gamification for Teaching and Learning Java Programming for Beginner Students — A Review," Journal of Computers vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 590-595, 2019.