Designing object-oriented software
Designing object-oriented software
The case for case studies of programming problems
Communications of the ACM
Integrating task and software development for object-oriented applications
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Scaffolded examples for learning object-oriented design
Communications of the ACM
Computer support for learning through complex problem solving
Communications of the ACM
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Advances in computing have awakened a century old teaching philosophy: learner-centered education. This philosophy is founded on the premise that people learn best when engrossed in the topic, participating in activities that motivate learning and help them to synthesize their own understanding. We consider how the object-oriented design (OOD) learning tools developed by Rosson and Carroll [5] facilitate active learning of this sort. We observed sixteen students as they worked through a set of user interaction scenarios about a blackjack game. We discuss how the features of these learning tools influenced the students' efforts to learn the basic constructs of OOD.