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Day one of the objects-first first course: what to do

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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Covington, Kentucky, USA

SESSION: Day one of the objects-first first course: what to do table of contents

Pages: 264 - 265

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:1-59593-361-1

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Joe Bergin	Pace University, New York, NY
Mike Clancy	University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Don Slater	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Michael Goldweber	Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
David B. Levine	St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

What should you do on the first day of your objects-first CS1 course? If you have been struggling with beginning an objects first course this special session will give you hints about how to avoid overload and make a smooth and effective start. The presenters are skilled at introducing objects to novices in interesting ways that captures the interest of the students and readies them for programming. These are gentle approaches that present deep ideas to the inexperienced. How can a course be built around objects without information overload? This session will address the opening gambit in this interesting game.

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	1	Bergin, Stehlik, Roberts, and Pattis, Karel J Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming in Java. Dreamsongs Press, 2005.
	2	Kim Bruce , Andrea Danyluk , Thomas Murtagh, Java: An Eventful Approach, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005
	3	Pausch et al, Alice, http://www.alice.org/.

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	Albrecht Ehlert , Carsten Schulte, Empirical comparison of objects-first and objects-later, Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop, August 10-11, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA