Object centered design for Java: teaching OOD in CS-1

  • Authors:
  • Joel Adams;Jeremy Frens

  • Affiliations:
  • Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI;Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Object-centered design (OCD) is a methodology developed to help novice C++ programmers learn to design software. By adapting OCD for use with Java, we can reduce the number of phases in OCD from five to three, and introduce object-oriented design (OOD) in CS-1 instead of CS-2.