EDUCATIONAL MODERN BINGO

A Thesis
Presented to the Faculty of
Information and Communication Technology Program
STI College Global City

In Partial to Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Acosta, Jovan B.

Araga, Jerick B.

Baste, Chrsitian Vince E.

Dela Cruz, Adrian Joshua P.

Degamo, Romel O.

Enrico, Christian C.

Surban, Amy B.

Tan, Jessy L.

November 2019
 CHAPTER I

Introduction

Bingo is a popular game that can be played for cash and prizes. Bingo games are won the
player matches numbers on the card with ones randomly drawn by a caller. The first person to
complete a pattern yell, "Bingo." The patterns can be varied throughout a gaming session, which
keeps players interested and engaged.

The game Bingo can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called "Lo Giuoco del
Lotto D'Italia," which is still played every Saturday in Italy. From Italy, the game was introduced
to France in the late 1770s, where it was called "Le Lotto", a game played among wealthy
Frenchmen. The Germans also played a version of the game in the 1800s, but it is used as a
child's game to help students learn math, spelling, and history.

In U.S. bingo was originally called "beano". It was a country fair game where a dealer
would select numbered discs from a cigarette box and players would mark in the cards with
beans. And yelled "beano" if won.
Background of the Study

The Bingo Manny Application is based on the Bingo game and the developers came up to
make a plan and create game application. Bingo Manny was related to Human Computer
Interaction by using the principles of General Human Computer Interaction that rarely existed
and not common to everybody and the developer’s researcher developed to enhance basic skills
in answering questions and to enhance the knowledge of its users. People now a days are most
commonly used applications, gadgets and computers that may not give beneficial information
and the only content of the student brain is to play entertainment games.

The developers created this application game to change the perspective of the students on
playing bingo game and able to use The Application to the activity of the Professors. The
absence of the students in class is getting worse. The developers aimed to create a system that
will enhance the second-year students’ knowledge.

In addition, this concludes major subjects of the second year students in Bachelor of
Science in Information Technology course in the application that helps the students to
understand the major subjects of second-year students. Having a new era of technology in which
computers are easily accessible, the developers believe that The Bingo Manny is better and
looking straightforward by the information that was saved in the application and everyone can
from the application.

A log-in form will be asked to the user to differentiate a student and a professor. The
students' will interact to the system by reading and understanding the question inside the game.
The user will have three chances to use hint in every questions that will reveal the first three
letters of the answer. The application has a customizable mode from which a professor can input
questions and answers to be answered by the students.

Upon answering the questions a random stamp will appear in the bingo card. In order win
the game the student must have a horizontal or vertical pattern stamp from the bingo card inside
the game.
Statement of the Problem

The second year college students of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology in

STI Global City are hard to catch up with the major subjects and most of the students choose to
play mobile games and talking with each other rather than to continuously study and gain more
knowledge while maximizing the time spent in the school premises.

General Problem

The second year students are experiencing a hard time to understand the subjects, despite
the effort of the professors upon teaching the lessons to the students. The students are still having
a hard time to catch up with the lessons.

Specific Problem

Boring

The students thinks the major subjects are boring due to lack of knowledge and
understanding with the lessons and the students cannot catch up with the lessons.

Gamer Mindset

The students tend to play mobile games before and after class discussions. The games
that the students are playing do not contain any educational benefits.

Objectives of the Study

General Objectives

The objectives of Bingo Manny are to give fun to the players and to share the data into to
the students. Also to help the students catch up with the lessons. Some students tend to absorb
knowledge by having playing an interactive game and having a set of goals and to winning a
game to motivate the students to study.
Specific Objectives

 The Bingo Manny game will assess to be more interactive with the user or student further
to lessen the boringness of the students to the lessons or subjects.
 Bingo Manny will assess to be familiarization to the terminologies of a certain topic.
 The Bingo Manny tends to minimize the students for playing mobile games while in
class.

Significance of the study

I.T. Students

The importance of the game is to make the Second Year Bachelor of Science Information
and Technology (BSIT) students studied in STI to be more active, energize, and challenge with
the help of Bingo Manny.

I.T. Professors

The game can be customized by the professors that can be used for the activity of the class. The
Bingo Manny game provides a certain question to remember the terminologies in the major
subject of the second year I.T. students that may help the second-year students to perform better
in the examinations and quizzes.
Scope

Categories of the Game

The categories of the game are the major subjects of second year students in Bachelor of
Science in Information Technology such which is Human Computer Interaction, Object-Oriented
Programming, Data Structure and Platform Technology(OS). The four categories are the major
subject of second year students of STI Global City College.

Selection of the Difficulty of Questions

The game includes a selection from an easy set of question, a hard set of questions and a
difficult set of questions.

Hint

The user will have three chances of using a hint that will show the first three letters of the
answer to the question presented. The hint can help the user to answer the question.

Features Customizable mode

The host has access to customize a new question and answer in the system.

Limitation

The game is cannot be attached to a website.

The game is only for the desktop or laptop platform.

It is exclusive for all second year students of Bachelor of Science in Information

Technology.

The customizable game is open for ten question to be inputted by the professors.

Upon exiting the game all data’s will reset the game.
 CHAPTER 2

Review Related Study

Foreign Study

Author Bingo. (Edelman, n.d.)

Author Bingo is a great activity to use as a reward for students, holiday activity, or end of
the year fun. Included in this game are 25 unique bingo cards featuring authors popular with 3rd-
6th grades. Each card contains the same author names but they have been moved about to allow
different winners each time you play. Also included is a list of the author names with popular
books or series by the author. This may be helpful if you want to really quiz your students and
call out a book title or series and have them match the author on their bingo sheets. (Edelman,
n.d.)

Synthesis

The relationship between Author Bingo and Bingo Manny is that in Author Bingo the app
itself ask questions, for the grade levels (3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th) about library skills literature. While
in Bingo Manny the question is intended for the Second Year Bachelor of Science in Information
Technology (BSIT) student’s major subjects (Data Structure and Algorithm, Human Computer
Interaction, Object Oriented Programming, Platform Technology (OS)).

Bingo-Quiz - Youth Work Practice (Hirling, n.d.)

The aim of the game is to complete two rows on a bingo board by answering the
questions. It is not important whether the rows are vertical, horizontal or diagonal. The rows may
also cross. One team chooses a number and the same question behind this number is posed to
both teams. The answer is written down by both teams. If both teams have an answer or the time
is over then the team who chose the number reads out their answer. The other team then reads
their answer out. If the reply is correct the team, or both teams have the number crossed out on
their bingo board. Then it is the other team’s turn. If the question is answered incorrectly the
field is marked on the plan (loss of field). The filed can no longer be used to make a row. When
choosing a number the team should make sure that the number is to their advantage and make
sure that the other cannot complete a row with the number.
Synthesis

The game follows a gameplay which follows a diagonal, horizontal and vertical pattern.
The Bingo Manny follows the same principle but only uses a horizontal and vertical pattern. The
pattern is produced by answering the question presented inside the game.

World Geography – Quiz Game. (Atom Games)

World Geography is a quiz game that will help you learn everything about countries –
maps, flags, capitals, population, religion, language, currency and much more. This quiz game
will help you learn everything about geography in easy an enjoyable way.

Synthesis

The world geography quiz is a question and answer game that provides the information to
the user with the interaction with the games user interface. The aim of Bingo Manny is to
provide information with the user who will challenge the games gameplay. The developer of the
game World Geography – Quiz Game has the same insight with the developer of Bingo Manny.

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Synthesis

This application depends only to luck in playing. Which relates to Bingo Manny also
depends on luck to win the game. Spinning the slot for a piece of luck is like answering the
question to have a stamp randomly on the boxes in the application Bingo Manny.
 Effects of Game Application in Learning Computer Hardware and Software
Technology. Bicatulo E. (2013)

According to Bicatulo, E. (2013) A Game Based Learning is a method in which the

students learn from a subject through playing a game associating the elements of the said subject.
The main purpose of this study is for the proponents to identify the effects of such method to the
teacher in the subject Hardware and Software Technology (CHST), a subject that tackles certain
aspects of a computer’s hardware and software. In the testing phase of the research, the
proponents applied the game based method. Ten students who played the game were divided into
two groups. The first group used the game based method, while the other group used the
traditional method of learning. Statistical data showed that the game based method proved to be
of help learning lessons in CHST.

Synthesis

The study of Bicatulo aims to create an effect for teachers to take positive effect from the
students that has played a game related to their topic. Bingo Manny is an educational game that
has the goal of making the student proactive inside the class. The student that played an
educational game has advantage than the other students that didn’t played an educational game.
 JMASTER 2.0: An Improved Interactive Game-Based Tool for Teaching Java
Programming. Bermudez R.(2015)

According to Bermudez R(2015)an interactive game-based tool for teaching basic java
programming. The study was started with reviewing the existing features of J-Master in order to
determine the problems, bugs and features that needs improvement. The research found out that
the features of the game-based tool suited to the needs and way of teaching in different schools
in the region. However, suggestions on additional features were raised and noted to be
considered in the improvement of the system. More organized menu, simple graphics and fixed
bugs were some of the improvements that can be seen on the version 2. Additionally, features
such as generating scores report, generating of student’s certificate and viewing of student’s code
were added in the game as enhancement on the teacher console. Aside from the additional
features, the version 2 aimed to have an ideal game content. To attain this, game content was
conducted to seek feedback from the faculty respondents. Based from the validation results, the
contents satisfied the criteria in terms of Appropriateness to the game, Technical Quality and
Educational Quality.

Synthesis

The developer of the JMaster is to help students to create and debug codes from JAVA.
The Bingo Manny has three categories related to JAVA. Instructions on how to instantiate,
inherit classes and implements interfaces. The subjects embedded inside the game was related in
JAVA. The JMaster and Bingo Manny has the same goal to help the students to have deeper
understanding with JAVA.
 CHAPTER 3

Methodology

Survey was performed for the developers to come up with the study. The developers
conducted a survey about the current status of the second-year student’s grade that it come to the
major subject the second-year students are taking.

Conceptual Framework

The Figure shows the model used by the researchers as an idea on how research problem
will have to be explored.

In this figure, it includes the input, process and the output. The input consists of a
respondent’s that will be using our application. The process includes procedures used by the
researchers. The output consists of the results that can be obtained after the study.

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

Respondents -Validation of the

application by
- Second year college professionals
of Bachelor of Science -Bingo Manny Game
-Assessment of survey
Application
Information and questionnaires
Technology in STI -Improvements of the
-Statistical treatment of
performance in the
College Global City data
class.
-Interpretation and
Concept
analysis of data
-Traditional Bingo gathered

Game
Data Gathering Procedure

Survey

The developers conducted a survey to all second year Bachelor of Science in Information
Technology students regarding the student’s performance in major subjects and after that the
developers will ask for the second-year student’s opinions about how effective the game Bingo
Manny in the student’s performance in school activities. The questionnaires have been validated
and checked by professionals chosen by the developers in order to improve and make the
questionnaires more accurate and straightforward.

Interviews

The developers conducted an interview to the students about the improvements or

performance of the students in the class by the help of Bingo Manny Game Application and how
the students will understand the major subjects after playing the game.

HCI Guidelines

General HCI Design – (Display Layout) The color will give comfort to the eyes upon
playing this game for a long period of time.

User Type (Group of second year students and I.T. professors) - The target user is
second year BSIT students and teachers. This game will provide additional information based on
certain topics. We can also help them understand in incorrect answers from the game
questionnaires.

Platform or System setup (Operating System(Windows), Desktop) - Bingo Manny is a

2d game with combination of panels and colors. The game can only be played in desktop and
laptop devices only.

Vendor / Organization (Private)– Our application is private because it is mainly use for
educational purposes and school activities. The team will develop the question if it was ordered
for a certain activity like school or seminars
 Interface Style/Modality (Windows, mouse, keybord) – Mouse is used for navigating
the game from buttons presented in the game. Keyboard is used for typing the answer of the user
in the problem presented in the questionnaire box.

Task/Operation Context (Location, Time) – The game can be played inside the
classroom presented by the teacher or it can be played in an event like educational school
activities. The game is mainly for school purposes.

Application (Game) –The application is for educational purposes. The game can play in
desktop and laptop devices only.
 CHAPTER 4

Description of the current system

The system of the game, that the developers created the Bingo Manny game through the
use of java language. In the system you will see a casual Graphical user interface. The
developers research questioners about second year college subject in ICT department. There are
twenty-five boxes inside the game the player must have five consecutive boxes pattern
horizontal and vertical in order to win. The game has different categories that the user can
choose specific categories after choosing the category there is another interface for the selection
of the mode for the selected category. The contents of the game are the topics of the second year
college major subjects. The process of the game is simply asking a certain question to the user
and if the user can answer the question correctly the system will mark a random box in the game
until the user complete the vertical line of marks or horizontal line of marks then the user will
win the game and else the user will lose.

Default Process of the Game

Frame1. The home screen of the game.

Frame2. After clicking the Play Now button. Choose an appropriate category for the game such
as Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structure, Human Computer Interaction and Platform
Technology(OS).

Frame3. Select a certain mode for the game.

Frame4. The game play.

Customizable Process of the Game

Frame1. Type a certain topic for the mini-game.

Frame2. Input the questionnaire and answers. Then Start the game.
Frame3. The Game play.

How to Play the Game

Frame1. Instruction of the game.

System Flowchart
System/Application Requirements

Software Requirements

The following requirements to run the game in the chosen platform of the game. The
figure below describes the software requirements of the game.

Software Requirements Description

- We have chosen Windows operating
Operating System system for its best support and user-
friendliness.

Hardware Requirements

The Educational Modern Bingo game has a minimum of 64bit.

Function Testing

The game developers conducted a game testing to make sure that all of the vital
functionalities are working correctly. The methods that being used in the game is examined to
make sure that the game has no bug or glitch inside the game. The next function test is smoke
testing which the game is ensured the stability and make sure that no functionality will cause the
program to terminate other than the user voluntarily choose to terminate the program. The
developers created the codes easy to understand by other programmer for the purpose of adding
new functionality for updates inside the game.

Software/System Testing

An exploratory testing is conducted by all member of the team to have the freedom to
interact with the system. The team used the details gathered to discover the possible bugs and
instability of the game and its functions.
User Accepting Testing

A user accepting testing is conducted by the developer to inspect possible errors upon the
interaction of the users with the Bingo Manny. The users are satisfied for the entry of User
Acceptance Testing, and followed the task to be performed.

Installation Process

Step 1

Insert a CD-ROM containing the installer of The Bingo Manny

Step 2

A dialogue box will appear that well ask for the location in which the application will be
installed and press next.

Step 3

Wait for the installation bar to be completed and click finish to exit the installation
wizard.
 Chapter 5

HCI Human Factors

The developers incorporated the human factor to the application. The text that is being
displayed is readable by the user within a maximum of 4 feet away from the monitor. The aural
modality is shown in the audio presented by the developers. The audio will help the user
stimulate the brain and this can help answering the questions inside the program.

Conclusion

The second year students that used the Bingo Manny improved performance of the
second year students in the class. The students became more attentive during the class
discussion. The professors used the Customizable feature of Bingo Manny to make an unique
approach for the professor’s activities.

Recommendation

1. Future Researchers. This study will serve as guide to the future researchers who will
study the fame field of topic. The researchers can use the advocacy we presented to
help the second-year Bachelor of Science in Information Technology inside the STI
College Campuses.
2. Students. The research helps one individual to solve concerns about all students who
suffers from difficulties with the major subjects. The research will also improve and
recall the knowledge they have acquired from the professors.
3. Academic Improvement. This research presents that the time spend in school must
be used to learn from time to time. The research has achieved the academic
improvement from the game’s users.
4. Parent. This research will give insight for the parents to encourage the sons and
daughters to install games that will improve the academic performance of the students
of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
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