Name: Said HADJERROUIT

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

E-mail: Said.Hadjerrouit@hia.no

Phone : (+47) 38 14 17 93

Fax : (+47) 38 14 10 11

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

Conference topic: Innovative instructional 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 Java. Learning the object-oriented approach is however difficult for novice students, mostly because it requires a new way of thinking about computing and more depth to grasp. Thus, to promote the object-oriented approach at the introductory level, a re-examination of the teaching method is needed. This article describes a new teaching method for rethinking object-oriented design and programming within the constructivist epistemology.

Submission : Paper