The outside-in method of teaching introductory programming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2890, Issue , 2003, Pages 66-78

  Meyer, Bertrand ^a,b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Eiffel Software   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEACHING; TEXTBOOKS;

INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; MAILING LISTS; OBJECT TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

CURRICULA;

EID: 35248825164     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Harold Abelson and Gerald Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd edition, MIT Press, 1996.
2. Bernard Cohen: The Inverted Curriculum, Report, National Economic Development Council, London, 1991.
3. Mark Guzdial and Elliot Soloway: Teaching the Nintendo Generation to Program, in Communications of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 4, April 2002, pages 17-21.
4. Bertrand Meyer, Towards an Object-Oriented Curriculum, in Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, vol. 6, no. 2, May 1993, pages 76-81.
5. Revised version in TOOLS 11 (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems), eds. R. Ege, M. Singh and B. Meyer, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (N.J.), 1993, pages 585-594.
6. Bertrand Meyer, Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1997, especially chapter 29, "Teaching the Method".
7. Bertrand Meyer, Software Engineering in the Academy, in Computer (IEEE), vol. 34, no. 5, May 2001, pages 28-35.
8. Bertrand Meyer, Touch of Class: Learning to Program Well - With object technology, Design by Contract, and steps to software engineering, to be published, draft versions currently available from se.inf.ethz.ch/touch
9. Christine Mingins, Jan Miller, Martin Dick, Margot Postema: How We Teach Software Engineering, in Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP), vol. 11, no. 9, 1999, pages 64-66, 74.
10. Niklaus Wirth: Computer Science Education: The Road Not Taken, opening address at ITiCSE conference, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2002, available (September 2003) at www.inr.ac.ru/ info21/greetings/wirth_doklad_eng.htm.