Fundamental concepts of CS1: procedural vs. object oriented paradigm - a case study

Authors:
Tamar Vilner;Ela Zur;Judith Gal-Ezer
Affiliations:
Open University of Israel;Open University of Israel;Open University of Israel
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2007

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Abstract

For some time, there has been an ongoing debate among Computer Science (CS) educators about the advantages and disadvantages of the shift from the procedural to the Object-Oriented (OO) paradigm. In our institution, we decided to implement this shift in the year 2005, when we changed our introductory course and started, right from the beginning, to teach the Java language, instead of the procedural facet of C++. While we still offered the two different paradigms in parallel, we had two similar groups each taking one of the paradigms. These two groups served as the research population of the study we describe in this paper. We examined whether the shift from the procedural to the OO paradigm had an effect on students' perception of fundamental concepts taught in the introductory course.