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

[Paragreen, Chris J]

Hi Ben,

I’m in a very similar situation to yourself. A couple of years ago I had a very capable student who defined his own classes, but most students stuck with arrays of records – as they are this year.

Chris Paragreen
Kew High School

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

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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