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Killer "killer examples" for design patterns

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Carl Alphonce,

Michael Caspersen,

Adrienne DeckerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 1

Pages 228 - 232

https://doi.org/10.1145/1227504.1227390

Published: 07 March 2007 Publication History

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Giving students an appreciation of the benefits of using design patterns and an ability to use them effectively in developing code presents several interesting pedagogical challenges. This paper discusses pedagogical lessons learned at the "Killer Examples" for Design Patterns and Objects First series of workshops held at the Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) conference over the past four years. It also showcases three "killer examples" which can be used to support the teaching of design patterns.

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  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 1

March 2007

581 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1227504

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SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2007
634 pages
ISBN:1595933611
DOI:10.1145/1227310
General Chairs:
Ingrid Russell
University of Hartford
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Susan Haller
SUNY Potsdam
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Haverford College
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Susan Rodger
Duke University

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