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Using greenfoot in teaching inheritance in CS1
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Tamar Vilner, Ela Zur, Shay TavorAuthors Info & Claims
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In the Open University of Israel CS1 course, there are eight assignments contributing various percentages to the overall course assessment. The concepts of inheritance and polymorphism are covered in assignment 5. In the fall semester of 2009, assignment 5 was changed to demonstrate these topics using the Greenfoot environment. Here we describe this assignment and its rationale.
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418 pages
ISBN:9781450306973
DOI:10.1145/1999747
- General Chair:
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Published: 27 June 2011
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