[Year 12 SofDev] Questions about teaching the Object Orientated part of OO programing languages

[Brett Fitzsimmons]

You are right. We’re using C# so have used a structs to construct records and Lists for data storage. More capable students have used classes and encapsulated behaviours in user defined objects but not sure that is required or assessable; certainly not examinable content.

> On 22 Jul 2016, at 11:34 AM, Baas, Benjamin B <baas.benjamin.b at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> I was just curious about how many people are teaching their students how to create and work with objects and how is it working out for them?
>  
> I decided to keep to the study design and taught my students how to use records and I’m finding that for the SAT that in the languages my students are using records are rather limited compared to object in how the complier treats them and have had to suggest some rather convoluted bits of code to get some of their programs working when using objects would have been simpler and more elegant .
>  
> I am now contemplating straying away from the study design a little bit next year and have my students learn how to work with objects instead of records.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Ben.
>  
> Benjamin Baas
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