A mobile application design and implementation for algorithm education

Thanks to technological developments, mobile device usage became widespread. Mobile learning, resulting from the increase of usage rates, allows users to access the resources on the Internet via mobile internet or wireless connections, regardless of time and place. Algorithm is commonly used to describe the stages of software written by programming languages within the computer engineering discipline. However, the process of determining a solution of a particular problem within a plan can be also called the algorithm. From this point of view, it is actually within all engineering branches. Because of this, algorithm education is a very basic and important subject for both computer engineering and other engineering disciplines. It is very difficult for an engineer who cannot fully understand the logic of the algorithm to plan achieve and realize the solution phases of a problem in his/her professional life. Because the importance of the algorithm and the fact that many users have mobile devices with them all the time, the idea of developing an application to support algorithm training for this platform has emerged. In this study, it is aimed to develop an application for people using mobile devices working with IOS for use in basic algorithm training. The application was developed using the native platform. There are two main menus in which the basic algorithm topics are explained and questions are existed. The questions are designed in three types: multiple choice, true/false and flow diagram creation. This application allows users to create a flow diagram from scratch. They can create the diagrams by drag-and-drop method. There is an opportunity to see the right and wrong answers by checking their own solutions according to the questions answers defined in the database. It has been observed that the application used by computer engineering undergraduate students has a positive effect on the success of the students.