A case study of modeling the object oriented programming knowledge as an educational ontology

Educational ontologies represent important resources for intelligent tutoring systems, elearning systems and web-based education in universities. They can be developed by modeling the knowledge domain of each university course for all didactical activities: teaching, learning and examination. The paper presents a case study of modeling the object oriented programming knowledge as an ontology by following methodological guidelines of the EduOntoFrame framework. The resulted educational ontology, CS-OOP-Onto, was implemented in Protégé, a Java-based ontology editor. Basic concepts as well as advanced concepts of object oriented programming were included in CS-OOP-Onto, facilitating teaching and learning the Object Oriented Programming course at different levels of knowledge. The modular structure of the ontology allows its extensibility with specific knowledge from different object oriented programming languages such as C++, C# and Java.