Title :
Teaching OO concepts-a case study using CRC-cards and BlueJ
Author :
Börstler, Jürgen ; Johansson, Thomas ; Nordström, Marie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Umea Univ., Sweden
Abstract :
The transition to object-oriented programming is more than just a matter of programming language. Traditional syllabi fail to teach students the "big picture" and students have difficulties taking advantage of object-oriented concepts. In this paper we present a holistic approach to a CSI course in Java favouring general object-oriented concepts over the syntactical details of the language. We present goals for designing such a course and a case study showing interesting results.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; object-oriented programming; teaching; BlueJ; CRC-cards; Java; course design; data gathering; holistic approach; object-oriented programming; programming language; student demographics; student feedback; Computer aided software engineering; Computer languages; Computer science; Delay; Education; Guidelines; Java; Object oriented programming; Problem-solving; Programming environments;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2002. FIE 2002. 32nd Annual
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7444-4
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2002.1157949
