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Object-Oriented Modeling of Object-Oriented Concepts

A Case Study in Structuring an Educational Domain

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Teaching introductory object-oriented programming presents considerable challenges. Some of these challenges are due to the intrinsic complexity of the subject matter — object-oriented concepts are tightly interrelated and appear in many combinations. The present work describes an approach to modeling educational domains and reports on the results for object-orientation. It analyzes the dependency structure of object-oriented concepts and describes the implications that the high interrelatedness of concepts has on teaching introductory programming.

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  1. Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Michela Pedroni & Bertrand Meyer

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  1. ETH Zürich, Informationstechnologie und Ausbildung, CAB F 16, Universitätstrasse 6,, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Juraj Hromkovič

  2. ETH Zürich, Informationstechnologie und Ausbildung, CAB F 13.1, Universitätstrasse 6,, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Richard Královič

  3. Foundations of Computer Science and Computer Science Education Group, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dortmund,, Otto-Hahn-Str. 14, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Jan Vahrenhold

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Pedroni, M., Meyer, B. (2010). Object-Oriented Modeling of Object-Oriented Concepts. In: Hromkovič, J., Královič, R., Vahrenhold, J. (eds) Teaching Fundamentals Concepts of Informatics. ISSEP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5941. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11376-5_15

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