Guidelines for teaching object orientation with Java

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Guidelines for teaching object orientation with Java

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Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education table of contents

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Pages: 33 - 36

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-330-8

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Michael Kölling	School of Network Computing, Monash University
John Rosenberg	Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
SIGCUE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Uses In Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

How to best teach object orientation to first year students is currently a topic of much debate. One of the tools suggested to aid in this task is BlueJ, an integrated development environment specifically designed for teaching. BlueJ supports a unique style of introduction of OO concepts. In this paper we discuss a set of problems with OO teaching, present some guidelines for better course design and show how BlueJ can be used to make significant improvements to introductory OO courses. We end by presenting a description of a possible project sequence using this teaching approach.

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