Development and application of an integrated course for procedural and object-oriented programming languages in EE

The EE(electrical engineering)-related departments in universities have courses for learning the procedural and object- oriented programming languages such as C and Java. Since C and Java programming languages have the distinctive similarities and differences, it would be effective to cover both programming skills in one course. We developed an integrated course for the students in the first year of EE-related degree, where both programming languages can be learned in an efficient way. We present the results in improvements of the education effectiveness after the actual lecturing for two semesters.