Learning object - oriented concepts for work - oriented competence development

Object-oriented programming requires both abstract, analytical knowledge and concrete, practical skills (e.g. Seffah, Bari & Desmarais 1999; du Boulay 1989). Rather contradictory to an increasing usage of object-oriented ways of approaching a problem (as e.g. through programming languages such as Java) in industry as well as in computer science education, existing learning material or textbooks do not focus on mediating the skills and knowledgerequired for this approach. Furthermore – an in particular when the target group is adults committed to further education and competence development and a previous knowledge of programming we argue that the students must achieve insights into how a experienced and professional programmer works and reflects in her actions of developing solutions from the initial problems to final models and executable codes.