====== Week 4: Objects First and Other OOP Approaches ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Examine the ways in which objects and object-oriented programming are introduced to students.

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

Required Readings

  * Kolling, M. (2008). [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/52V55517356QT070|Using BlueJ to Introduce Programming Reflections on the Teaching of Programming. In J. Bennedsen, M. Caspersen & M. Kolling (Eds.), (Vol. 4821, pp. 98-115): Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.]] (BCK)

  * Borstler, J. et al. (2008). [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/V58548G3G2567271|Transitioning to OOP/Java ‚ ---- A Never Ending Story
Reflections on the Teaching of Programming. In J. Bennedsen, M. Caspersen & M. Kolling (Eds.), (Vol. 4821, pp. 80-97): Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.]] (BCK)

  * Albrecht Ehlert and Carsten Schulte. (2009). [[http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1584322.1584326|Empirical comparison of objects-first and objects-later. In Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop (ICER '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15-26. DOI=10.1145/1584322.1584326 
]]
===== Topics =====

  * Object first
  * Objects early
  * Objects later
  
===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: Implementing Classes