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.
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