Title :
A Project-Based Curriculum for Teaching C++ Object-Oriented Programming
Author :
Chen, Yen-Lin ; Chiang, Chuan-Yen ; Huang, Yo-Ping ; Yuan, Shyan-Ming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
This paper presented a project-based remedial curriculum for teaching the C++ programming language and object-oriented programming (OOP) skills and concepts. The pedagogical approach of the proposed curriculum comprises of a set of homemade projects for facilitating the students to quickly learn the essential C++ and OOP skills by accordingly implementing a large-scale communication software system. Based on the constructivist learning technology, the proposed project-based curriculum can effectively improve and enhance the learning effectiveness and interests of the students via the hands-on, minds-on, and learning by doing practices related to their lives. From the students´ survey and grade assessment results, the proposed project-based curriculum and practical homemade projects demonstrates its effectiveness and feasibility for motivating the students´ interests on C++ and OOP skills and incorporating these skills for developing practical and large-scale software.
Keywords :
C++ language; computer science education; educational courses; object-oriented programming; teaching; C++ object-oriented programming teaching; OOP; communication software system; constructivist learning technology; homemade projects; project based curriculum; project based remedial curriculum; Graphical user interfaces; Libraries; Object oriented programming; Programming profession; Software systems; Computer science education; communication software; object-oriented programming (OOP); project-based curriculum;
Conference_Titel :
Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 9th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), 2012 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3084-8
DOI :
10.1109/UIC-ATC.2012.94