One of the most intriguing—and at the same time most problematic—notions in object-
oriented programing is inheritance. Inheritance is commonly regarded as the feature that …

We present a brief overview of a model for the human cognitive architecture and three
learning theories based on this model: cognitive load theory, cognitive apprenticeship, and …

The Actor model is a mathematical theory that treats" Actors" as the universal primitives of
concurrent digital computation. The model has been used both as a framework for a …

Object-oriented programming has, in recent years, become the most influential programming
paradigm. It is widely used in education and industry, and almost every university teaches …

For50years, wehavebeenteachingprogramming. Inthattime, wehaveseen-mentouschanges.
Fromteachinga? rstcourseusinganassemblylanguageorF-tran I to using sophisticated …

The recommendations of the Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula 2001 encompass
suggestions for an object-first introductory programming course. We have identified …

This paper reviews and applies new hierarchical approaches to ecological modelling. These
new approaches are made possible by the development of the object-oriented paradigm …

The dissertation identifies and discusses impact of a model-based approach to teaching and
learning introductory object-oriented programming both for practitioners and for computer …

While object-orientation has been widely accepted as an important programming paradigm,
teaching object-orientation remains difficult. Experience reports suggest that some problems …

Umas das maiores dificuldades dos alunos iniciantes em Programação Orientada a Objetos
é o exercício de abstração, algo necessário para a compreensão dos conceitos mais …