A systematic review of learning object oriented programming through serious games and programming approaches

In this review paper, the studies dedicated to identifying the learning of Object Oriented Programming through Serious Games(SGs) and applying different programming approached applied were investigated. This systematic review attempts to gather all evidence that helps answer three specific research questions: identification of SGs developed or incorporated for learning OOP, OOP concepts covered in those games, and programming approaches applied. Three different ways were found as result of the learning through SGs: learning by playing games, learning by creating games and learning by using game related tools. Majority of studies covered all basic OOP concepts. The programming approaches applied includes object first, concept first, GUI first and code first programming approaches. Result indicates learning by playing games is most frequently used and effective strategy followed by learning by using game related tools. The most common programming approach applied is Game as first approach.