TEACHING OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AT THE INTRODUCTORY LEVEL

Year 2006, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 149 - 157, 01.06.2006

Prof.Dr. Mehmet C. Okur

Abstract

Teaching object oriented programming has become a rapidly expanding preference at various educational environments. However, teachers usually experience problems when introducing object oriented concepts and programming to beginners. How to teach the fundamentals of object oriented programming at an introductory level course is still a common subject for debate. In this paper, an evaluation of these problems is presented and some possible approaches for improving the quality and success of such courses are discussed

Keywords

Object oriented language , procedural programming, abstraction, UML, algorithm, programming environment

TEACHING OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AT THE INTRODUCTORY LEVEL

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