An object-oriented program development environment for the first programming course

Kölling, Michael; RosenbergJohn,

doi:10.1145/236462.236514

Cited by 18 publications

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“…The data being reported here was part of a wider study into the effects of the introduction of the BlueJ programming environment [1] into our first year programming courses in which Java is the implementation language.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does it help to have some programming experience before beginning a computing degree program?

Hagan

Markham

2000

Proceedings of the 5th Annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

118

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There is an intuitive perception that students with prior programming experience have an initial advantage in an introductory programming course, but that this advantage may decrease over the duration of the course if the style of programming is different from what the student has learnt previously. This paper reports on a study that indicates that students who have experience in at least one programming language at the beginning of an introductory programming course perform significantly better in the assessment than those with none, and that the more languages with which a student has experience, the better the performance tends to be.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does it help to have some programming experience before beginning a computing degree program?

Hagan

Markham

2000

Proceedings of the 5th Annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

118

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“…[8] At the ACM SIGCSE 2010 conference, Blue was referenced as one of the most influential tools in the history of computer science education. [7] The BlueJ environment is derived from Blue.…”

Section: Blue and Bluejmentioning

confidence: 99%

GUIGraph

Buck

2011

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Joint Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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The GUIGraph software tool supports a new pedagogy, motivates students, and solves early user-interface issues. Regardless of the type of curriculum, it can provide an initial, intuitive introduction to object-oriented thinking, even before coding is discussed. By editing a UML-like object diagram, the student creates and links virtual Java Swing objects representing a user-interface, and can instantly view and manipulate its realization. GUIGraph is unique in that the student specifies an object structure to be created, equivalent to writing complex source code. When requested, GUIGraph generates the Java source code of an abstract class that constructs the object structure. The student then completes the coding of a concrete class that implements its application specific abstract methods. The functionality of the application is cleanly separated from its user-interface, which helps build design intuition, and iterative refinement of the user-interface is supported by regenerating the abstract class.

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“…BLUE ENVIRONMENT AND BLUEJ: UNI-VERSITY OF SYDNEY, 1996 [Kolling and Rosenberg 1996b], [Kolling et al 2003]. The Blue environment and BlueJ are development environments designed to support object-oriented programming in the Blue language and Java, respectively.…”

Section: Structuring Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lowering the barriers to programming

2005

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Since the early 1960's, researchers have built a number of programming languages and environments with the intention of making programming accessible to a larger number of people. This article presents a taxonomy of languages and environments designed to make programming more accessible to novice programmers of all ages. The systems are organized by their primary goal, either to teach programming or to use programming to empower their users, and then, by each system's authors' approach, to making learning to program easier for novice programmers. The article explains all categories in the taxonomy, provides a brief description of the systems in each category, and suggests some avenues for future work in novice programming environments and languages.

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An object-oriented program development environment for the first programming course

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Does it help to have some programming experience before beginning a computing degree program?

Does it help to have some programming experience before beginning a computing degree program?

GUIGraph

Lowering the barriers to programming

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