Good examples for exposing bad practice: a "killer examples" workshop

ABSTRACT

The "Killer Examples" series of workshops are highly interactive workshops which have been an annual occurrence at OOPSLA since 2002. The goals of the workshop are to bring together educators and developers to share their object-oriented expertise, and to provide a forum for discussion of teaching techniques and pedagogical goals. The theme of last year's workshop was pedagogically sound examples for object orientation; this year's workshop continues that theme, but rather than focusing on examples that demonstrate sound object-oriented design, it will focus on examples that expose bad practice and so lead to better appreciation of good practice, as obtained by following sound object-oriented principles.

The workshop will present such examples which are or can be used in the teaching of object-orientation. All participants in the workshop will critique the examples and actively engage in refining the examples in a way that they support a clear and sound pedagogy.

While there was a formal application procedure to guarantee admission to the workshop, we do accept walk-ins if space permits and the walk-ins are determined to have adequate interest and background in the workshop theme to be able to contribute positively to the discussions.

INDEX TERMS

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

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
learning, object-orientation, pedagogy, process, programming, teaching