Introducing undergraduates to object orientation using the Turing language

摘要

Object-oriented programming was introduced in the 1980s and is now being used extensively in industry, but academia has not generally included it as a main stream topic for instruction. Part of the difficulty is the lack of good software to support teaching of object orientation. This paper describes an approach that teaches OO concepts across the Computer Science undergraduate curriculum, beginning in the introductory course, using the Object-Oriented Turing system.