A principled approach to teaching OO first

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-35

  Gries, David ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Objects first; Teaching object oriented programming; Teaching OO

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE MODELS; CS1; OBJECTS FIRST;

COMPUTERS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

TEACHING;

EID: 57449113206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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