Behaving with real class - Using a text-based language
This lesson sequence offers an approaches to teaching object-oriented principles using text-based programming. It attempts to address the problem that many of programming languages are too complex and their environments confusing for many students.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 9-10 |
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Content type | Lesson ideas |
Format | Web page |
Core and overarching concepts | Algorithms, Implementation (programming) |
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI10P09
Implement, modify and debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an object-oriented programming language |
Keywords | Object-oriented programming, OOP, Text-based programming |
Organisation | ESA |
Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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