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

fYear

2009

fDate

15-16 May 2009

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

267

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing and Education, 2009 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3619-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IUCE.2009.52

Filename

5223130