Evaluation of student attitudes to learning the Java language

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 25 archive
Proceedings of the inaugural conference on the Principles and Practice of programming, 2002 and Proceedings of the second workshop on Intermediate representation engineering for virtual machines, 2002 table of contents

Dublin, Ireland

SESSION: Teaching with Java table of contents

Pages: 125 - 130

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:0 901519 87 1

Authors

Michael Madden	National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Desmond Chambers	National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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: SUN Microsystems, Ltd.

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National University of Ireland Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland, Ireland

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ABSTRACT

The Java Programming Language is now very well established and is, frequently the first Object-Oriented Language that is taught to students. This paper discusses the results of a wide-ranging survey conducted by the authors to help identify aspects of the language that students perceive to be most difficult. It also reports on the teaching methods and other resources that students find most effective.

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	Nor Fazlida Mohd Sani , Abdullah Mohd Zin , Sufian Idris , Zarina Shukur, Designing an understanding and debugging tool (UDT) for object-oriented programming language, Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering Data Bases, p.1-6, February 13-15, 2005, Salzburg, Austria
	Leonardo Cecchi , Pilu Crescenzi , Gaia Innocenti, C : C++ = JavaMM: Java, Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Principles and practice of programming in Java, June 16-18, 2003, Kilkenny City, Ireland
	Kleanthis C. Thramboulidis, A sequence of assignments to teach object-oriented programming: a constructivism design-first approach, Informatics in education, v.2 n.1, p.103-122, January 2003

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
Subjects: Computer science education

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.2 Language Classifications
Subjects: Object-oriented languages
Nouns: Java

General Terms:
Algorithms, Documentation, Theory

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