Teaching Object-oriented Programming using Object Benches: Practical Experience
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In this paper we summarize our long-term experiences with teaching object-oriented programming in university courses using teaching support tools called object benches. We describe four software tools: BlueJ, Greenfoot, Alice and Visual Studio’s Object test bench. Common feature of those tools is runtime access to objects, their attributes and operations. We present our experience with using object benches in programming courses, we evaluate the above mentioned tools in context of teaching object-oriented programming and compare them with our OAT tool we have developed to support object-oriented programming teaching. The comparison is based on several criteria solution’s architecture, level of interactivity and domain specificity. As a result of the evaluation, we summarize the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to design educational tools for teaching of object-oriented programming. We also discuss the main decisions behind the design and development of
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