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Object-Oriented Modeling of Object-Oriented Concepts

A Case Study in Structuring an Educational Domain
  • Michela Pedroni
  • Bertrand Meyer
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5941)

Abstract

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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Core Group Feature Call Information Hiding System Execution Primitive Type 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Michela Pedroni
    • 1
  • Bertrand Meyer
    • 1
  1. 1.Chair of Software EngineeringETH ZurichSwitzerland

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