Abstract:

The aim of this research is to show the impact of the game development activities that primary school students do with visual programming tools on the students’ attitudes against programming, on the perceptions of self-sufficiency and on the students’ attitudes towards coding. In this study, the method of karma research was used. Pre-test-final test control group with the semi-experimental research plan is prepared and applied to the students with the interview form of the quality research methods. The work was done in a primary school from the province of Amasya. Both groups were used as a preliminary and final test "Computer Programming Learning Attitude Scale" and "Scratch Programme Self-Computer Awareness Scale". For pre-test and final test analyses, the SPSS program has made arithmetic average, standard deviation, t test analyses. The results of the analysis showed no significant differences in the final test of the students' attitude towards programming in the game development activities carried out in visual programming environments. Similarly, there was no significant difference in the pre-test and final test analysis of the student’s perceptions of self-sufficiency against programming. Although there is no statistically meaningful difference in students’ attitudes and self-qualifications to programming, when the quality data is analyzed, the experiment group has shown that students are interested in visual programming and their motivations are high.

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