Object-orientation and the principles of learning theory

DeClueTim,

doi:10.1145/236462.236546

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“…The objective of using software visualisation techniques to teach programming is to promote an understanding of the concepts being taught ( Stasko, Dominigue, Brown, & Prince, 1998), (Gomez Henrïquez, 2001), (DeClue, 1996). To this end, the last thirty years have seen the development of a large number of tools that employ these techniques to various extents.…”

Section: Subsequent Evaluation Of Bluejbackground and Rationalementioning

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Teaching and Learning with BlueJ: Evaluation of a Pedagogical Tool

Haaster¹,

Hagan²

2004

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BlueJ is a programming environment that has been used to teach object-oriented introductory programming since 1999 in two consecutive first year units at Monash University. An earlier evaluation of its effectiveness in helping students to learn OO programming in the first unit was inconclusive, although most students who participated in the study believed that it did help them to learn Java. It was hoped at that time that students would show positive effects of using BlueJ more in the second unit than in the first. This paper reports on a later evaluation study, when the BlueJ environment had become more stable and easier to install. It examines the reactions and results of students in the second of the two units. It also introduces a set of criteria for evaluating environments designed for novice programmers.

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Section: Subsequent Evaluation Of Bluejbackground and Rationalementioning

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Teaching and Learning with BlueJ: Evaluation of a Pedagogical Tool

Haaster¹,

Hagan²

2004

InSITE Conference

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“…One could argue that the major benefit of the object-oriented paradigm correlates to its major hindrance. It has been said that switching from a procedural paradigm to an object-oriented paradigm later in a student's programming education is more difficult than if the student had started in object-orientation (Guzdial, 1995;DeClue, 1996). However, there is also a worry that students will lose the basic ability to make low-level implementations of their classes if they become too focused on object-orientation (Duke et al, 2000).…”

Section: Programming Educational Paradigmsmentioning

confidence: 99%