Reaction for: A Laboratory for Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking by Lucas

As I have said in the past, I definitely think that roll-playing can be beneficial in learning, but only if it's done correctly. CRC cards definitely work, as can be seen from this paper's Thinking With Objects experiments/seminars, and last week's paper.

However, they obviously aren't the end-all to programming design -- a lot of people, including myself, seem to have gotten along without them up to now sans problèm.

And, in conclusion, I'd just like to know where they get off thinking that a tomato sauce manufacturer has any knowledge about CS education techniques (see page 4, first line of the last paragraph). He even got footnoted!!


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Jon:

As a small correction, in your first sentence, I think you mean role-playing, not roll-playing. For fans of RPGs, we used to refer to people who just rolled a bunch of dice and cared more about rules than characters roll-players. So I will be a pain in the ass about this. :-)


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