Enriching Computer Science Programming Classes with Arduino Game Development

The following article presents an electronic education board based on popular Arduino microcomputer. Its purpose is to make programming learning more attractive by expanding the possibilities of interaction with a computer with a number of input/output devices, such as joysticks, graphic and alphanumeric displays, light emitting elements, keyboards and radio communication. Due to its affordable price and availability, students that do not have any practical skills or knowledge in the field of electronics can build simple games and applications that are beyond their reach in the normal programming course, during which they usually write console based programs.