Objects from the beginning - with GUIs

Authors:
Viera K. Proulx;Jeff Raab;Richard Rasala
Affiliations:
Northeastern University, Boston, MA;Northeastern University, Boston, MA;Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2002

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Abstract

We describe a way to introduce objects at the beginning of the first CS course through the use of objects that have significant nontrivial behavior and interactions with other objects. We will describe four introductory laboratory projects and an outline for introductory lectures on object oriented programming that illustrate the need for private member data, constructors and accessor member functions, and prepare students for writing object oriented programs in Java with graphical user interfaces.