A design-first curriculum for teaching Java in a CS1 course

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A design-first curriculum for teaching Java in a CS1 course

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin archive
Volume 37 , Issue 2 (June 2005) table of contents

COLUMN: Reviewed papers table of contents

Pages: 89 - 93

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0097-8418

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Sally H. Moritz	Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Glenn D. Blank	Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Pedagogies for teaching object-oriented programming in an introductory course are still under much debate. We present a design-first approach, which teaches problem-solving techniques using elements of UML. Objects are still introduced early in the curriculum. We also present two tools to support our curriculum: multimedia courseware to help students learn the basic concepts of objects and classes, and an IDE that includes both a UML interface and interactive tools to allow easy experimentation.

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	1	Eric Allen , Robert Cartwright , Brian Stoler, DrJava: a lightweight pedagogic environment for Java, Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, February 27-March 03, 2002, Cincinnati, Kentucky
	2	Barnes, D. & Köölling M. Objects First With Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
	3	Blank, G. D., Pottenger, W. M., Sahasrabudhe, S. A., Li. S., Wei, F., and Odi, H. Multimedia for computer science: from CS0 to grades 7--12, EdMedia, Honolulu, HI, June 2003. Online at www.cse.lehigh.edu/~cimel/papers./EdMedia03.pdf.
	4	Kim B. Bruce, Controversy on how to teach CS 1: a discussion on the SIGCSE-members mailing list, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.36 n.4, December 2004
	5	Wei, F., Moritz, S., Parvez, S., and Blank, G. D., A Student Model for Object-Oriented Design and Programming. CCSCNE, Providence, RI, April 2005. Online at www.cse.lehigh.edu/~cimel/papers/CCSCNE05.pdf.

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	Shahida M. Parvez , Glenn D. Blank, A pedagogical framework to integrate learning style into intelligent tutoring systems, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.22 n.3, p.183-189, January 2007
	Sally H. Moritz , Glenn D. Blank , Shahida Parvez , Fang Wei, A "design-first" curriculum and Eclipse™ tools, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.22 n.3, p.51-52, January 2007
	Anna Riccioni , Enrico Denti , Roberto Laschi, An experimental environment for teaching Java security, Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java, September 09-11, 2008, Modena, Italy