Name: Said HADJERROUIT

Postal mail: Agder College, Department of Mathematics
                      Tordenskjoldsgate 65,
                      N-4604 KRISTIANSAND (Norway)

Fax: (+47) 38 14 10 11

E-mail: Said.Hadjerrouit@hia.no

Phone: (+47) 38 14 17 93

Title of submission: A Constructivist Approach to Object-Oriented Programming

Conference topic: Innovative intsructional methods

Abstract:  Computer science education is greatly affected by the object-oriented paradigm. This can be seen in the numerous new teachers being attracted to programming languages, such as C++ and particularly Java. Object-orientation provides not simply a new way of programming, but a new way of thinking about computing. To promote the object-oriented paradigm at the introductory level, a re-examination of the teaching practice is needed. The article describes a new teaching approach for rethinking the object-oriented paradigm within the epistemology of constructivism.

Submission : paper