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Functions, Objects and States: Teaching Informatics in Secondary Schools

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Recently we developed a new part of our educational concept for secondary schools. The concept was in total designed for the grades 6,7 and 9-11 of the Bavarian Gymnasiums, where we introduced a new mandatory subject informatics that started in 2003 at about 400 schools. After giving a short summary of the educational context and the other parts of the concept, we describe in detail the recently developed course of lessons that combines object oriented modelling (including a close look at the states of objects and attributes) with object oriented programming.

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Hubwieser, P. (2006). Functions, Objects and States: Teaching Informatics in Secondary Schools. In: Mittermeir, R.T. (eds) Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers. ISSEP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915355_10

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