NDLI: Teaching object-orientation with the Object Visualization and Annotation Language (OVAL)

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Raner, Mirko
Abstract	Object-oriented techniques and technologies are omnipresent in all branches of modern software development and systems design. Still today there is an enormous demand for training in the area of object-oriented analysis, design and programming.Several languages and notations have been developed for the visual presentation of object-oriented ideas and designs (eg, the Booch method [1], OMT [3] or the emerging standard UML [4]). Such languages or notations are an excellent means of communication and documentation amongst experts. However, for novice trainings they are not very suitable. Instead, they raise additional difficulties: not only a large number of new ideas and a new way of thinking has to be learned, but also a highly non-intuitive graphic notation to present these ideas.The newly developed Object Visualization and Annotation Language (OVAL) is a simple illustrative notation which aims at OO novices. It visualizes the key ideas of object-orientation in a very intuitive way and was especially designed to assist in the process of teaching the way of object-oriented thinking.
Starting Page	45
Ending Page	48
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581132077
DOI	10.1145/343048.343071
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2000-07-13
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Teaching object-orientation with the Object Visualization and Annotation Language (OVAL)