A Feasibility Study on Learning of Object-Oriented Programming Based on Fairy Tales

Abstract

In learning object-oriented programming (OOP), it is necessary to understand the concept of OOP and apply it to actual development. However, acquiring such skills is not easy for novice programmers. We propose a learning method based on fairy tales in order to make it easier for learners to work by assuming a specific situation, and to make it easier for other learners to share the situation. In the proposed method, the learners select one fairy tale as the subject themselves, and express the flow of the story by interaction between characters, changing attributes, exchanging objects, and outputting narrations. Finally, the learners design the classes and methods necessary for expressing them, and actually realize as an executable program. We applied the proposed method in a lecture at the graduate school and confirmed the feasibility.