Place of event: University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy
Date: 11 June 2025
The second dissemination event of the FGPE++ project took place on 11 June 2025 in the premises of its organizer, University of Naples “Parthenope” in Naples, Italy. The event, titled “Gamification in Programming Education 2025”, brought together educators, researchers, and students from Italy and abroad to discuss the increasing role of gamification in programming education and to present the final results of the FGPE++ Gamified Programming Learning at Scale project. In total, 31 participants attended the event.
The event agenda included presentations on using gamification in programming education with the help of the FGPE platform, automating the generation of gamified programming exercises with GAMAI, a workshop in using GAMAI-extended AuthorKit, a guided tour to the Museum of Architectures for Computation (MArC), presenting results of GAMAI-based experiments comparing various Large Language Models in generating and solving programming exercises, a visit to the laboratories and the High Performance Computing facilities of University of Naples “Parthenope”, and a tutorial of the new version of PLE upgraded in the FGPE++ project, including playing with GAMAI-generated exercises.
