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Teaching object-oriented concepts with Eclipse

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eclipse '04: Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1066129.1066130

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Object-oriented software development is a subject area difficult to teach, especially to beginners. They face a lot of abstraction and (from a beginners point of view) isolated topics, such as the syntax and semantics of a programming language, the functionality of a software development environment and basic object-oriented concepts. Although many professionals in education believe in the "object first" approach as the best method of introducing object-oriented concepts, there is no common agreement on how to start such courses. Current study programs often begin by teaching a programming language, instead of focusing on the basics of object-oriented concepts.In the last years a learning environment was developed based on a visual programming language to abstract away from details. It assists teaching step-by-step object-oriented concepts and the syntax and semantics of a programming language in secondary schools and first year university courses. Our goal is to port this learning environment to the widely used IDE Eclipse.

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Teaching object-oriented concepts with Eclipse
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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eclipse '04: Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange

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DOI:10.1145/1066129

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IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

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