Marie Nordström

PhD Thesis: Object Oriented Quality in Introductory Programming Education

Parts

• Kappa : Object Oriented Quality in Introductory Programming Education
• Paper I: Transitioning to OOP/Java -- A Never Ending Story

  Börstler, J., Nordström, M., Kallin Westin, L., Moström, J., and Eliasson, J., "Transitioning to OOP/Java -- A Never Ending Story", In Scandinavian Pedagogy of Programming, M. Kölling, J. Bennedsen, and M. Caspersen, Eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. LNCS 4821. Springer, pp.86-106 (18 pages).

• Paper II: Heuristics for Designing Object-Oriented Examples for Novices

  Nordström M. and Börstler J., "Heuristics for Designing Object-Oriented Examples for Novices"
  Submitted to ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) (21 pages).

• Paper III: Evaluating OO example programs for CS1

Börstler, J., Christensen, H. B., Bennedsen, J., Nordström, M., Kallin Westin, L., Moström, J-E. and Caspersen, M. E. (2008). "Evaluating OO example programs for CS1". In ITiCSE'08: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, pp.47--52, New York, NY, USA. ACM (5 pages).

• Paper IV: On the Quality of Examples in Introductory Java Textbooks

  Börstler J., Nordström M., and Paterson J. H., "On the quality of examples in introductory java textbooks," In ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)

• Paper V: Educators' Views on Object Orientation

  Nordström M.
  Submitted to Computer Science Education (16 pages).

• Paper VI: Educators' Strategies for Object Oriented Analysis and Design

  Nordström M.
  In ACM Inroads (17 pages).

• Paper VII: Improving OO Example Programs

  Nordström M. and Börstler J.
  Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Education (5 pages).

Lic. Thesis