Wollok: Language + IDE for a gentle and industry-aware introduction to OOP

2017 Twelfth Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO) Pub Date : 2017-10-01 DOI:10.1109/LACLO.2017.8120933

Nicolás Passerini, Carlos Lombardi, Javier Fernandes, P. Tesone, Fernando Dodino

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Students often have difficulties in learning how to program in an object-oriented style. One of the causes of this problem is that object-oriented languages require the programmer to be familiarized with a big amount of non-trivial concepts, to write even the simplest programs. For several years we have been teaching introductory OOP courses using an incremental learning path, which starts with a simplified OOP model consisting only of objects, messages and references. We observed that the use of programming languages and tools that differ greatly from those used in the IT industry weakens student interest, and also hampers the application of the learned concepts and techniques in subsequent labor experiences. In this work we describe Wollok, which encompasses both an educative language and a specialized integrated development environment (IDE) conceived for learning OOP in a way that supports our pedagogical approach, and facilitates at the same time the transition to industrial environments. Equally important, we describe our teaching experience with these tools and the motivations for their design.

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Wollok:面向面向对象的语言+ IDE介绍

学生在学习如何以面向对象的风格编程时经常遇到困难。这个问题的原因之一是，面向对象语言要求程序员熟悉大量的重要概念，甚至编写最简单的程序。几年来，我们一直在使用增量学习路径教授OOP入门课程，该路径从仅由对象、消息和引用组成的简化OOP模型开始。我们观察到，使用与IT行业中使用的编程语言和工具有很大不同的编程语言和工具削弱了学生的兴趣，也阻碍了在随后的劳动经验中应用所学的概念和技术。在这本书中，我们描述了Wollok，它包含了一种教育语言和一个专门的集成开发环境(IDE)，用于以支持我们的教学方法的方式学习OOP，同时促进向工业环境的过渡。同样重要的是，我们描述了我们使用这些工具的教学经验以及设计这些工具的动机。

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