Climbing the smalltalk mountain

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Climbing the smalltalk mountain

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin archive
Volume 21 , Issue 3 (January 1990) table of contents

Page: 76

Year of Publication: 1990

ISSN:0736-6906

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Mary Beth Rosson
John M. Carroll

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Part of the promise of object-oriented software technology - and much of the fascination with objected-orientedness -- stems from its psychological implications. Thinking in terms of objects sending and responding to messages is supposed to be more "natural" than thinking of various data structures being operated on by generic procedures. Programming by using or specializing existent objects and their methods is supposed to make code reuse accessible even to beginners.

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	1	Bruner, J. S., Goodnow, J. J. and Austin, G. A. (1956). <i>A study of thinking</i>. New York: Wiley.
	2	John M. Carroll, The Nurnberg funnel: designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990
	3	O'Shea, T. (1986). Panel: The learnability of object-oriented programming systems. In N. Meyrowitz (Ed.), <i>Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'86) Conference Proceedings</i> (502--504). New York: ACM.

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	Mark K. Singley, MOLEHILL: an instructional system for Smalltalk programming, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology, p.439-440, April 27-May 02, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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	Nancy Pennington , Adrienne Y. Lee , Bob Rehder, Cognitive activities and levels of abstraction in procedural and object-oriented design, Human-Computer Interaction, v.10 n.2, p.171-226, September 1995
	Mary Beth Rosson , Sherman R. Alpert, The cognitive consequences of object-oriented design, Human-Computer Interaction, v.5 n.4, p.345-379, December 1990