Title :
Teaching OOP with BlueJ: A Case Study
Author :
Xinogalos, Stelios ; Sartatzemi, Maya ; Dagdilelis, Vassilios ; Evangelidis, Georgios
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Informatics, Macedonia Univ., Thessaloniki
Abstract :
In this paper we present our findings on teaching OOP with BlueJ in the context of a one-semester programming course. We organize our findings, i.e., the difficulties, the errors, and the misconceptions that students encounter, in two categories: (a) difficulties attributed to the special characteristics of OOP, and, (b) difficulties that may be attributed to the features of the programming environment
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; object-oriented programming; programming environments; teaching; BlueJ; object oriented programming; programming environment; Books; Computer aided software engineering; Computer languages; Education; Guidelines; Informatics; Java; Object oriented programming; Programming environments; Programming profession;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kerkrade
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2632-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652599
