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> Academics would sometimes do well to relate to the real world and deflate their egos. This is really the key to teaching beginners. The difference between te

> Academics would sometimes do well to relate to the real world and deflate their egos. This is really the key to teaching beginners. The difference between telling someone what something is versus encouraging them to see it for themselves. Apart from the tired car analogy, how would you (or better how would your dad have) explain(ed) OOP to a relative beginner? We find that we sometimes have to start with the very basics - as in a variable is a 'box' to put a value in. Literally, we hand out boxes. Really, simple intuitive stuff like variables is something that is non-intuitive for most people.

lelandbatey 12y ago
The way I had it explained to me I always really liked. We spent a long time on very simple things: logic, control flow, functions, variables. Then, after learning that and all the limitations of those tools, my teacher said: "an object is something that can contain functions and data. In fact, in many languages, functions and variables are both objects." At least that's how I remember it.
SixSigma 12y ago
We keep the cooking equipment and raw materials in the kitchen. Same goes for the bathroom, laundry, den, bedroom. These are all "rooms" which share features like doors, heating, floors, lights. These will be in building, which could be detached, block, semi-detached, terrace. These also have common processes but differences. We human computers move between these rooms, sometimes we bring data with us (are we hungry, sleepy, with friends, naked) and use the processes and data in the rooms to perform useful actions. Once compete we might be in a different state (dressed, sated, refreshed, clean), the room might be different for the next person (dirty, empty, wet), we might leave the outputs there or take them with us to a different room or even outside of the building.

lelandbatey 12y ago

The way I had it explained to me I always really liked. We spent a long time on very simple things: logic, control flow, functions, variables. Then, after learning that and all the limitations of those tools, my teacher said: "an object is something that can contain functions and data. In fact, in many languages, functions and variables are both objects." At least that's how I remember it.

SixSigma 12y ago

We keep the cooking equipment and raw materials in the kitchen. Same goes for the bathroom, laundry, den, bedroom. These are all "rooms" which share features like doors, heating, floors, lights. These will be in building, which could be detached, block, semi-detached, terrace. These also have common processes but differences. We human computers move between these rooms, sometimes we bring data with us (are we hungry, sleepy, with friends, naked) and use the processes and data in the rooms to perform useful actions. Once compete we might be in a different state (dressed, sated, refreshed, clean), the room might be different for the next person (dirty, empty, wet), we might leave the outputs there or take them with us to a different room or even outside of the building.