TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding object oriented programming concepts in an advanced programming course
AU - Benaya, Tamar
AU - Zur, Ela
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Teaching Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a difficult task, both for teachers who have to find the best way to illustrate the concepts and for students who have to understand them. Although the OOP paradigm and its concepts reflect the "real world", it has been shown that students find hard to understand and internalize the OOP concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. This paper describes difficulties in understanding OOP in an Advanced Java course given at the Computer Science Department of the Open University of Israel. We present a typical question which focuses on several aspects of OOP. We discuss the students' answers and point out typical hardships in grasping the topic.
AB - Teaching Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a difficult task, both for teachers who have to find the best way to illustrate the concepts and for students who have to understand them. Although the OOP paradigm and its concepts reflect the "real world", it has been shown that students find hard to understand and internalize the OOP concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. This paper describes difficulties in understanding OOP in an Advanced Java course given at the Computer Science Department of the Open University of Israel. We present a typical question which focuses on several aspects of OOP. We discuss the students' answers and point out typical hardships in grasping the topic.
KW - Encapsulation
KW - Inheritance
KW - Object oriented programming
KW - Polymorphism
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/47749094678
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_15
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AN - SCOPUS:47749094678
SN - 3540699236
SN - 9783540699231
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 161
EP - 170
BT - Informatics Education - Supporting Computational Thinking - Third International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspective, ISSEP 2008
Y2 - 1 July 2008 through 4 July 2008
ER -