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A. Patterson, M. K?lling, B. Quig and J. Rosenberg, “The BlueJ System and Its Pedagogy,” Journal of Computer Science Education, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2003, pp. 13-24.

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• TITLE: The Effects of Objects-First and Objects-Late Methods on Achievements of OOP Learners

  AUTHORS: Murat Pasa Uysal

  KEYWORDS: Object-Oriented Programming; Objects-First; Objects-Late

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol.5 No.10, October 31, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Our research explored the effects of objects-first and objects-late methods on achievements of object-oriented pro-gramming (OOP) learners during a graduate course. The course’s scope was virtually identical for two groups, but the structure of the contents differed in sequence. The objects-first method emphasized the design and discussion of the object-oriented concepts from the very beginning while the objects-late deferred these concepts to the late lectures. The objects-first learners used all visual functionalities of BlueJ IDE. However, the objects-late learners started with only the text-based interfaces of BlueJ and they benefited its visual support in the last lectures. At the end of the study, we found that there was a statistically significant difference between OOP learner groups.