Cognitive activities of abstraction in object orientation: An empirical study

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 82-86

  Or Bach, Rachel ^a   Lavy, Ilana ^a  

^a Emek Yezreel College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Inheritance; Object oriented design; Object oriented programming; Task analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; TEACHING;

ABSTRACTION; INHERITANCE; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TASK ANALYSIS;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 33645756101     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1024338.1024378     Document Type: Review

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