====== Week 5: Classes, Packages, and Advanced Topics ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Techniques for taking students the next step in object-oriented design and programming.  (And further discussion about OOP first vs. procedural first.)

===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

Required Readings

  * Burton, et al (2003). [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/782941.782993|Teaching Programming in the OOP Era]]
  * Holland, et al (1997). [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/268084.268132|Avoiding Object Misconceptions]]
  * Lieberman, et al (2011). [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1921607.1921611|Difficulties in Learning Inheritance and Polymorphism]]

Optional Readings

  * [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/216922.216928|The top 10 reasons why OOP can't be taught in CS1]]
  * [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1709424.1709458|An Evaluation of Object Oriented Example Programs in Introductory Programming Textbooks]]

===== Topics =====

  * Discuss misconceptions surrounding object-oriented programming.
  * Examples of problems students have when learning inheritance and polymorphism.
  
===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: Fundamental Data Types