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Implementation of the Concept-Driven Approach in an Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Course

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Models in Software Engineering (MODELS 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 6627))

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One of the most important tasks in object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is the abstraction of the problem domain into specific concepts or objects. Information technology (IT) students need appropriate skills of abstraction in order to identify the essential concepts and relationships within a problem domain. However students in higher education generally find difficulty performing abstractions of real-world problems within the context of OOAD. In this paper, we present a framework comprising four teaching modules for teaching object-oriented (OO) modelling using concept maps. We also report results of an evaluative study on the effectiveness of integrating concept mapping techniques into an introductory OOAD course by classifying the UML diagrams produced by the participants in design categories.

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  1. HELP University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Ven Yu Sien

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  1. School of Computing, Queen’s University, 723 Goodwin Hall, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada

    Juergen Dingel

  2. SINTEF, Oslo, Norway

    Arnor Solberg

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Sien, V.Y. (2011). Implementation of the Concept-Driven Approach in an Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Course. In: Dingel, J., Solberg, A. (eds) Models in Software Engineering. MODELS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21210-9_6

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