Towards an Object-Oriented Curriculum

r s This proposal suggests a redesign of the teaching of programming and othe oftware topics in universities on the basis of object-oriented principles. It argues t that the new ‘‘inverted curriculum’’ should give a central place to libraries, and ake students from the reuse consumer’s role to the role of producer through a process of ‘‘progressive opening of black boxes’’. ________________________________________________________________ p This article is ISE Technical Report TR-EI-38/TE, January 1993. The resent version is a draft. Revised versions were published in the Journal , a of Object-Oriented Programming, vol. 6, no. 2, May 1993, pages 76-81 nd in TOOLS USA 1993. Cite as Bertrand Meyer, Towards an Object-Oriented Curriculum, in , p TOOLS 11, Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems roceedings of 11th international TOOLS conference, Santa Barbara, H August 1993, eds. Raimund Ege, Madhu Singh and B. Meyer, Prentice all 1993, pages 585-594. ________________________________________________________________ e 8 Eiffel Software, ISE Building, 356 Storke Road, Santa Barbara CA 93117 USA, telephon 05-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869, http://www.eiffel.com, [email protected].  Eiffel Software, 1993. TOWARDS AND OBJECT-ORIENTED CURRICULUM 2