Editorial Learning and Teaching Object Technology

摘要

Ten years ago very few universities or colleges ran courses in object technology, but nowadays, the object-oriented paradigm is taught in most computer science curricula. Transitioning to object-oriented problem solving and programming has, however, proved to be more difficult than expected and many educators have experienced for themselves that moving to the object-oriented paradigm is not just a matter of changing programming languages. While debate may continue about whether or not a 'paradigm shift' is required, many people needing to adopt the object approach to development have found the transition hard. But why has learning and teaching object technology proved to be this tough?