A child's eye view of Java

  • Authors:

  • Julia Dawson;David Coward

  • Affiliations:

  • University of the West of England, Bristol;University of the West of England, Bristol

  • Venue:
  • PPPJ '03 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Principles and practice of programming in Java
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears has been used as a scenario for the introduction of fundamental object-oriented programming concepts and their implementation in Java. The rationale for the approach stems from the observation of the innate ability of young children to build abstract models of the world around them. This very natural approach is rarely exploited -- the scenario given develops a virtual world in which students participate physically as well as intellectually.