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 that some students liked it. There is certainly [...]

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, teachers [...]