Week 4: Objects First and Other OOP Approaches

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

Required Readings

• Kolling, M. (2008). 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). 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). 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

• Object first
• Objects early
• Objects later

• AP CS: Implementing Classes