Informatics Education – The Bridge between using and understanding computers

Abstract

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.