Title :
A Long-Term Evaluation and Reformation of an Object Oriented Design and Programming Course
Author :
Xinogalos, Stelios ; Satratzemi, Maya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Technol. Manage., Univ. of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper we present important results from a long-term evaluation of an ldquoobject-oriented design and programmingrdquo course. In its last form the course is based on the combined use of the microworld objectKarel and the environment BlueJ, while some important modifications on the original teaching approach based on BlueJ have been made.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; object-oriented programming; BlueJ environment; long-term evaluation; microworld objectKarel; object oriented design-programming course; teaching approach; Books; Debugging; Education; Genetic programming; Graphical user interfaces; Guidelines; Informatics; Java; Object oriented programming; Technology management; Course Design and Evaluation; Educational Programming Environments; Object-Oriented Programming; Programming Microworlds;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2009. ICALT 2009. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Riga
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2009.131
