Title :
Research and Practice of Visual Teaching for Three Basic Characteristics of Object-Oriented Concepts
Author :
Jianying, Xiong ; Leiyue, Yao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., JiangXi Bluesky Univ., Nanchang, China
Abstract :
Animated program visualization is a useful tool in many areas of computer science education. This paper describes the use of visualization for teaching beginners about the three characteristics of object-oriented concepts, which are encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. The Java language has been used as the expression format of the examples. Statistical data as well as informal observations are summarized to show evidence of student performance as a result of this approach. A comparison is made of the pedagogical aspects of this new approach with that of other relevant work.
Keywords :
Java; computer animation; computer science education; data encapsulation; inheritance; object-oriented programming; program visualisation; teaching; Java language; animated program visualization; computer science education; encapsulation; inheritance; object-oriented concept; pedagogical aspect; polymorphism; statistical data; visual teaching practice; Animation; Computer science; Computer science education; Courseware; Data visualization; Displays; Encapsulation; Java; Object oriented programming; Road vehicles; Encapsulation; Inheritance; OOP; Polymorphism; visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing and Education, 2009 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3619-4
DOI :
10.1109/IUCE.2009.52
