Learning object-oriented programming in six hours: an experience with school students

Andrew Hussey; David Leadbetter; Helen Purchase

doi:10.1145/299359.299377

Learning object-oriented programming in six hours: an experience with school students

Andrew Hussey, David Leadbetter, Helen Purchase

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Teaching object-oriented programming skills in six hours to school students who have either never programmed, or who have never encountered object-oriented programming before, is an ambitious task. Within these time and skill limitations, we devised an educational strategy based on learning through exercises, and trialled it with sixty students who attended a three day vacation school. The observations presented in this paper indicate that it is possible to give novices a worthwhile, enlightening and exciting programming experience within a restricted time period.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1997
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	117-125
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	0897919580
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/299359.299377
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 1997
Externally published	Yes
Event	Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education 1997 - Melborne, Australia Duration: 2 Jul 1997 → 4 Jul 1997 Conference number: 2nd https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/299359 (Proceedings)

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	Part F129322

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Conference	Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education 1997
Abbreviated title	ACSE 1997
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melborne
Period	2/07/97 → 4/07/97
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/299359 (Proceedings)

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Hussey, A., Leadbetter, D., & Purchase, H. (1997). Learning object-oriented programming in six hours: an experience with school students. In Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1997 (pp. 117-125). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F129322). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/299359.299377

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Hussey, A, Leadbetter, D & Purchase, H 1997, Learning object-oriented programming in six hours: an experience with school students. in Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1997. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. Part F129322, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 117-125, Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education 1997, Melborne, Victoria, Australia, 2/07/97. https://doi.org/10.1145/299359.299377

Learning object-oriented programming in six hours: an experience with school students. / Hussey, Andrew; Leadbetter, David; Purchase, Helen.
Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1997. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1997. p. 117-125 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F129322).

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