Fuzzy OOP: Expanded and reduced term interpretations

Ronit Shmallo; Noa Ragonis; David Ginat

doi:10.1145/2325296.2325368

Fuzzy OOP: Expanded and reduced term interpretations

Ronit Shmallo^*, Noa Ragonis, David Ginat

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School of Education

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Abstract

We display a novel perspective of novice OOP difficulties. In a thorough study of 120 undergraduates, in their first OOP course, we noticed a variety of misconceptions and difficulties with a wide range of basic terms and notions. Careful analysis revealed a recurring phenomenon, of fuzzy OOP conceptions, which derive from expansion and reduction of basic term features. Novices tended to expand and/or reduce properties not only of terms such as "class" and "object", but also of terms such as "static", "access", and "instance". Particular misconceptions were of the forms: "One vs. Many". We display a detailed categorization of our findings, in an ordered hierarchical structure, and discuss its cognitive characteristics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE'12 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Pages	309-314
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325368
State	Published - 2012
Event	17th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE'12 - Haifa, Israel Duration: 3 Jul 2012 → 5 Jul 2012

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Name	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
ISSN (Print)	1942-647X

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Conference	17th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE'12
Country/Territory	Israel
City	Haifa
Period	3/07/12 → 5/07/12

Keywords

computer science education
expansion
object-oriented programming
reduction

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Shmallo, R, Ragonis, N & Ginat, D 2012, Fuzzy OOP: Expanded and reduced term interpretations. in ITiCSE'12 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE, pp. 309-314, 17th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE'12, Haifa, Israel, 3/07/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325368

Fuzzy OOP: Expanded and reduced term interpretations. / Shmallo, Ronit; Ragonis, Noa; Ginat, David.
ITiCSE'12 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. 2012. p. 309-314 (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE).

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