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From: mikpa@massormetrix.ida.liu.se (Mikael Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Teaching object oriented programming
Keywords: Teaching, Problem Examples, Programming Examples
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Date: 1 Aug 89 16:35:17 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. and Info. Science, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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Dear Object-Oriented Programmers out there in Net-Land. I need your help!

I am working on a course on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) for third and 
fourth year students on our civil engineer lines. I'd like some advice
and help on some problems:

1. Are there any classical examples (such as the Dining Philosofers, and
the Readers-Writers Problem from Concurrent Programming) that well 
illustrate the problems and ideas behind OOP?

2. What are the landmark publications within this area? 

3. Teaching OOP seems easy when it comes to concept as there exists a
number of well established metaphors. The real problem seems to be
methodology. Does anyone have any pointer to object oriented 
programming methodologies?

4. When teaching functional programming languages such as Lisp the
interpreter (eval, apply) is often used to better understand the
execution model and how it may be altered. Is it essential to explain
the virtual machine of an object oriented language in the same manor? 
And if so what depth? The Smalltalk execution model is quite complex
in detail.

Mikael R.K. Patel
Researcher and Lecturer
Computer Aided Design Laboratory
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linkoeping University, S-581 83  LINKOEPING, SWEDEN

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