“…Research has offered educators various pedagogic tricks (e.g., Bennedsen & Caspersen, 2004;Bierre, Ventura, Phelps, & Egert 2006;S. Cooper, Dann, & Pausch, 2003;Holliday & Luginbuhl, 2004;Hsia, Simpson, Smith, & Cartwright, 2005;Kölling & Henriksen, 2005;Lopez-Herrejon & Schulman, 2004;Mahmoud, Dobosiewicz, & Swayne, 2004;Marrero & Settle, 2005;Shanmugasundaram, Juell, & Hill, 2006;Truong, Bancroft, & Roe, 2005;Utting, 2006), but the lack of solid psychological and educational theories makes a holistic approach impossible. This paper presents a case for systematic research into the comprehension of programming and the development of skills in the OO paradigm.…”