Myths about object-orientation and its pedagogy

  • Authors:
  • John Lewis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the thirty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Object-orientation continues to find a home in computing curricula, especially in early courses such as CS1. As this trend continues, some ideas seem to take on a life of their own, despite being fundamentally incorrect. Unfortunately they propagate most quickly among those who are relatively new to the ideas of object-oriented development. This paper enumerates and debates the underlying issues of several myths regarding object-orientation and its pedagogy.