%0 Journal Article %1 Gehlot:2012:CFO:2038772.2038798 %A Gehlot, Vijay %A Way, Thomas %A Klassner, Frank %C USA %D 2012 %I Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges %J J. Comput. Sci. Coll. %K education functional oo programming %P 122--129 %T Coexistence of functional and object-oriented paradigms %U http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038772.2038798 %V 27 %X Öbjects-first" is a popular teaching approach in CS1/2 courses, particularly those designed around the Java programming language. Recently, theory-based criticisms of this approach have been used at some noteworthy universities to justify delaying object orientation to second year courses in favor of functional-based introductory curricula, and even treating object orientation as an optional advanced topic. In this paper we present a case for adopting a co-existential approach between object-orientation and functional programming based on the view that development of "computational thinking" skills should be a fundamental goal of CS1/2 courses. Towards this end, a tight relationship between ML and Java is explored and examined by means of several illustrative examples.

@article{Gehlot:2012:CFO:2038772.2038798, abstract = {"Objects-first" is a popular teaching approach in CS1/2 courses, particularly those designed around the Java programming language. Recently, theory-based criticisms of this approach have been used at some noteworthy universities to justify delaying object orientation to second year courses in favor of functional-based introductory curricula, and even treating object orientation as an optional advanced topic. In this paper we present a case for adopting a co-existential approach between object-orientation and functional programming based on the view that development of "computational thinking" skills should be a fundamental goal of CS1/2 courses. Towards this end, a tight relationship between ML and Java is explored and examined by means of several illustrative examples.}, acmid = {2038798}, added-at = {2012-01-11T11:41:53.000+0100}, address = {USA}, author = {Gehlot, Vijay and Way, Thomas and Klassner, Frank}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2dd7a5e46b5bbf38e914b802932c92a1f/ji}, description = {Coexistence of functional and object-oriented paradigms}, interhash = {2a4f48eb41e19984c782386d6f710e82}, intrahash = {dd7a5e46b5bbf38e914b802932c92a1f}, issn = {1937-4771}, issue = {3}, issue_date = {January 2012}, journal = {J. Comput. Sci. Coll.}, keywords = {education functional oo programming}, month = jan, numpages = {8}, pages = {122--129}, publisher = {Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges}, timestamp = {2012-01-11T11:41:53.000+0100}, title = {Coexistence of functional and object-oriented paradigms}, url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038772.2038798}, volume = 27, year = 2012 }