Employing Object Technology to Expose Fundamental Object Concepts

This paper reports on the utilisation of object technology in a university-level course on software development, specifically designed for distance learning, and now enrolling over 5,000 students per year (average age 37) in the UK, Western Europe and Singapore. M206 `Computing: An Objectoriented Approach' embodies a practical, industry-oriented view of computing, which has resulted in a prestigious Award for IT from the British Computer Society. The course is large, representing one sixth of a degree, and the full panoply of educational media is used in its delivery. M206 introduces computing via an object-oriented approach. To ensure that the concepts involved in the development of complex software systems are well grounded and applicable by neophytes, we have employed object technology itself to realise our pedagogy, investing over 50 person years of academic effort. The paper describes the agenda for the course, its object-oriented pedagogy and our strategy for delivering it....

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: TOOLS
• Authors: Mark Woodman, Robert Griffiths, Simon Holland, Hugh Robinson, Malcolm Macgregor
• Keywords: British Computer Society, Object Technology, Object-oriented Pedagogy, Programming Languages, TOOLS 1999