Blockchain is a new trend rising fast from the community and the enterprise world. As an
infrastructural technology it is finding its way into a growing number of domains like finance …

This paper presents Enki, a web-based IDE that integrates several pedagogical tools
designed to engage students in learning programming languages. Enki achieves this goal …

Computer science education has always been a challenging topic for both sides of the
trench: educators and learners. Nowadays, with the pandemic state that we are facing, these …

Kee** students engaged while learning programming is becoming more and more
imperative. Of the several proposed techniques, gamification is presumably the most widely …

Usage of game mechanics, dynamics, aesthetics and game thinking in a non-game systems
is called gamification and recently becomes very popular in academia. In e-learning systems …

Existing gamification services have features that preclude their use by e-learning tools. Odin
is a gamification service that mimics the API of state-of-theart services without these …

In the realm of conceptual and system design, mod-eling stands out as a pivotal activity,
emphasizing the significance of mastering modeling languages such as the Unified …

The industry of video games is one of the fastest growing sectors in the worldwide economy.
One of the key factors to increase engagement and player retention, was the use of various …

This paper presents an overview and main features of Enki, a web-based learning
environment for computer science languages. Enki was designed to be a sort of entry level …