The Joy Of Software – Starting With Objects

Woodman, Mark; Davies, Gordon and Holland, Simon (1996). The Joy Of Software – Starting With Objects. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Klee, Karl J. ed.), ACM, New York, pp. 88–92.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/236462.236515

Abstract

This paper briefly describes the evolution and content of the Open University’s new introductory course in Computing which has been designed for delivery internationally to over 3500 students per year. It replaces a conventional procedural programming course and introduces computing through object technology— specifically, through Smalltalk. Unlike its predecessor it is being designed to be accessible by non-computing majors and with an intention to address the gender imbalance in our student population. Multimedia technologies are used in the delivery of this distance learning course which is being developed by the course team for presentation in 1997.

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• Item ORO ID
• 59802
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISBN
• 0-89791-757-X, 978-0-89791-757-5
• Extra Information
• originally presented at SIGCSE '96: Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 15-17 Feb 1996.
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Research Group
• Music Computing Lab
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• © 1996 ACM
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• Simon Holland