Joint integration of the object-oriented paradigm at Amarillo College and Texas Tech University
Donald J. Bagert, H. Paul Haiduk · 3C ON-LINE · 1995
The current debate over whether and where to include the object-oriented paradigm in undergraduate computing science curricula is strikingly similar to another debate not yet finished. Anyone who has been involved in CS curricula for over ten years will recall that we are still sometimes debating where to first present concepts of procedural and functional abstraction, although hardly anyone debates that we should not do so at all. Thus, there is a real sense of deja vu with respect to the current debate over the Object-Oriented Paradigm (OOP). That is, virtually everyone feels that it should be included, but there is still a wide variety of opinions as to where and how it should be done. This paper discusses how the teaching of the object-oriented paradigm has evolved over the last several years in the two-year program at Amarillo College and at the four-year undergraduate program at Texas Tech University, which are 120 miles apart.