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The object shop—using CD-ROM multimedia to introduce object concepts

Published: 01 March 1997 Publication History

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This paper describes key features of a new multimedia CD-ROM pack produced by television makers in collaboration with computer science educators --- by the BBC for the Open University Computing Department. The pack, The Object Shop, forms an early component of an undergraduate course which introduces object-oriented computing and software development to students new to computing. Building on the results of empirical evaluation, The Object Shop has been designed to help students with no programming experience to understand core object programming concepts. Throughout the CD-ROM, video, animated graphics and an underlying object-oriented simulation of a virtual shopping environment provide an accessible introduction to the central ideas of object-oriented programming. The key power of the multimedia approach is that the student-user is able to gain a sound operational understanding of concepts before learning the details of programming code or syntax. Users can continually monitor their progress through a series of task-based, assessed exercises.

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Woodman, M., Holland, S., and Davies, G. The Joy Of SoftwaremStarting With Objects, Proceedings SIGCSE 96, Philadelphia February 1996.
[2]
Woodman, M. and Holland, S. From Software User To Software Author: An initial Pedagogy For Introductory Object-Oriented Computing, Proceedings SIGCSE/SIGCUE 96, Barcelona, Spain, June 1996.

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  • (1999)Employing object technology to expose fundamental object conceptsProceedings Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems. TOOLS 29 (Cat. No.PR00275)10.1109/TOOLS.1999.779081(371-383)Online publication date: 1999
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cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 29, Issue 1
March 1997
388 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/268085
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    SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
    March 1997
    410 pages
    ISBN:0897918894
    DOI:10.1145/268084
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Published: 01 March 1997
Published in SIGCSE Volume 29, Issue 1

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  • (1999)Beginners and programmingEducation and Information Technologies10.1023/A:10096520015664:2(167-179)Online publication date: 1-Oct-1999
  • (1999)Employing object technology to expose fundamental object conceptsProceedings Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems. TOOLS 29 (Cat. No.PR00275)10.1109/TOOLS.1999.779081(371-383)Online publication date: 1999
  • (1999)Balancing the multimedia mix in a large scale distance education courseProceedings 25th EUROMICRO Conference. Informatics: Theory and Practice for the New Millennium10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794807(406-414 vol.2)Online publication date: 1999

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