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Introductory Computing: The Design Discipline

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Informatics in Schools. Contributing to 21st Century Education (ISSEP 2011)

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The goal of this paper is to present in context the key didactical principles behind the Program by Design curricula, motivate the need for the supporting software, and describe in detail the How to Design Classes component for teaching introductory object oriented program design using Java and Java-like languages. The key innovations are a systematic test-first program design, and the introduction of programming language concepts by designing abstractions based on existing programs.

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  1. Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Viera Krňanová Proulx

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  1. Department of Informatics Education Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 842 48, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Ivan Kalaš

  2. Institut für Informatik-Systeme, Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Roland T. Mittermeir

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Proulx, V.K. (2011). Introductory Computing: The Design Discipline. In: Kalaš, I., Mittermeir, R.T. (eds) Informatics in Schools. Contributing to 21st Century Education. ISSEP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24722-4_16

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