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P. Mclaughlin & G. Lovegrove

Abstract

The problems of teaching object technology in mainstream computing undergraduate courses are currently being debated. Object technology is also featuring beneficially in joint and hybrid courses but this brings its own problems. These are especially relevant to increasingly popular, modular courses where there is an even greater diversity of previous and complementary study than at present. This paper discusses issues raised by the particular problems encountered when teaching object technology to joint honours undergraduate students for the first time. In 1994/95 some thirty students enrolled for a second level object oriented programming option course as part of the computing half degree in the scheme of applied sciences offered at the Stoke site of Staffords

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