We discussed: Abstraction and Information Hiding Levels of Abstraction Forms of Abstraction A Short History of Abstraction Here are the slides: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc7f6bh9_32g3tkmqcb Since the Google Docs Presentation could not be embedded into WordPress blogs, I created a Slideshare.net account today and uploaded the slides. It looks good. CSCI 383 Lecture 3 and 4: Abstraction View more [...]

We discussed: Programming Paradigms Six principles of OOP Elements of OOP The slides： Lecture 2: Thinking Object-Oriented (2) Any comments?

Today, I gave my first lecture for Course CSCI 383 with some general introduction. Here is an overview: A bit History of Programming Languages What is Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Why is OOP? Popularity of OOP Language and Computation Here is the slide file created using google doc presentation: Thinking Object-Oriented (1) 2009/09/14 I am glad [...]

I am teaching a course at StFX: CSCI-383 Object-Oriented Programming & Design. Tomorrow will be the first class. Interestingly enough, today (September 10) is the Teachers’ Day in the People’s Republic of China. I did not know how does this day come until now (check wikipedia). But I did know the basic idea. In Chinese culture, [...]