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Miller, Craig S. – Computer Science Education, 2014
When learning to program, students often mistakenly refer to an element that is structurally related to the element that they intend to reference. For example, they may indicate the attribute of an object when their intention is to reference the whole object. This paper examines these reference-point errors through the context of metonymy.…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Novices, Figurative Language
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Sien, Ven Yu – Computer Science Education, 2011
Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is not an easy subject to learn. There are many challenges confronting students when studying OOAD. Students have particular difficulty abstracting real-world problems within the context of OOAD. They are unable to effectively build object-oriented (OO) models from the problem domain because they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Computer Software