Towards an object-oriented curriculum
Bertrand Meyer · 1993
This proposal suggests a redesign of the teaching of programming and other software topics in universities on the basis of object-oriented principles. It argues that the new "inverted curriculum" should give a central place to libraries, and make students from the reuse consumer's role to the role of produce through a process of "progressive opening of black boxes". Follow-up papers have included "Software Engineering in the Academy" (IEEE Computer, 2001). The ideas have been applied at various universities including Monash in Australia and ETH in Zurich.