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Objects-First vs. Structures-First Approaches to Oo Programming Education: An Empirical Study
Academic journal article from Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2
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ABSTRACT
Software development is a cornerstone of information technology and computer programming is a key element of software development. Teaching computer programming to undergraduates can be challenging. Adding to the challenge is the near universality of the object-oriented paradigm in computer programming courses. A key question facing programming instructors is whether to take an objects-first approach or a structures-first approach in the classroom. Conventional wisdom seems to favor an objects-first approach, but no hard empirical evidence exists on this question. This study performs a field experiment by having two nearly equivalent sections of introductory Java …
