A competitive platform for continuous programming skill enhancement
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Abstract
Enhancing programming skills is the key factor to keep up with current ever-changing technologies in IT industry. Implementing strategies on game-based platform is a common way for programmers to enhance programming skills. However, runtime simulation and game metrics provided by current game-based strategy platforms are ineffective to motivate continuous programming skill enhancement. We propose ELOP, a competitive game-based strategy platform to motivate programmers. ELOP will automatically schedule competitions for programmers, keep competition history, record changes in performance and provide needed personal information for further enhancement. To evaluate the effectiveness of ELOP, we conduct several studies. The result shows that ELOP does motivate programmers in continuous programming practice and enhance their programming skills.
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