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Teaching CS1 with karel the robot in Java

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 33, Issue 1

Pages 50 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/366413.364536

Published: 01 February 2001 Publication History

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Most current Java textbooks for CS1 (and thus most current courses) begin either with fundamentals from the procedural paradigm (assignment, iteration, selection) or with a brief introduction to using objects followed quickly with writing objects. We have found a third way to be most satisfying for both teachers and students: using interesting predefined classes to introduce the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (object instantiation, method calls, inheritance) followed quickly by the traditional fundamentals of iteration and selection, also taught using the same predefined classes.Karel the Robot, developed by Richard Pattis [6] and well-known to many computer science educators, has aged gracefully and is a vital part of our CS1 curriculum. This paper explains how Karel may be used and the advantages of doing so.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 33, Issue 1

March 2001

432 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/366413

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SIGCSE '01: Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
February 2001
456 pages
ISBN:1581133294
DOI:10.1145/364447
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