Employing Object Rexx for Teaching Mba Students the Oo-paradigm
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At the WU Vienna with over 20,000 students one of the largest Economics and Business Administration Universities in the world an experiment was started in the summer semester of 1999 to teach MBA Students the OO-paradigm with the help of Object REXX. It has been very well known that taught material is learned the best, if the concepts are worked out by the people themselves. Therefore it may make sense to teach OO-concepts to MBA students by the means of exercises using an object-oriented programming language. Object REXX was chosen because of its simple syntax which draws from Mike F. Cowlishaw's original work on procedural REXX, while at the same time implementing a very powerful OO-model. Object REXX is available on a variety of operating systems, namely AIX, Linux, OS/2 and Windows95/98/NT. This article introduces a syllabus for teaching MBA students the OO-paradigm with the help of Object REXX, thereby introducing the key features of the language itself and reports about preliminary conclusions. . Employing Object REXX for Teaching MBA Students the OO-paradigm, page 1-18
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