Good examples for exposing bad practice: a "killer examples" workshop

The “Killer Examples” series of workshops are highly interactive workshops which have been an annual occurrence at OOPSLA since 2002. The goals of the workshop are to bring together educators and developers to share their objectoriented expertise, and to provide a forum for discussion of teaching techniques and pedagogical goals. The theme of last year’s workshop was pedagogically sound examples for object orientation; this year’s workshop continues that theme, but rather than focusing on examples that demonstrate sound object-oriented design, it will focus on examples that expose bad practice and so lead to better appreciation of good practice, as obtained by following sound objectoriented principles. The workshop will present such examples which are or can be used in the teaching of object-orientation. All participants in the workshop will critique the examples and actively engage in refining the examples in a way that they support a clear and sound pedagogy. While there wa...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: OOPSLA
• Authors: Dale Skrien, Michael E. Caspersen, Jürgen Börstler, Adrienne Decker, Carl Alphonce
• Keywords: Killer Examples, OOPSLA 2009, Sound Examples, Sound Objectoriented Principles