ITiCSE 2006 Working Group: Research Perspectives on the Objects-Early Debate

Full working group proposal (4 pages, PDF). Includes a bibliography of 32 relevant papers.

Membership of the working group is now CLOSED. The 11 members are:

Name			Institution			Country
Andrew Luxton-Reilly	Auckland University		New Zealand
Anders Berglund***	Uppsala University		Sweden
Kathy Garvin-Doxas	U. of Colorado			USA
Brian Hanks		Fort Lewis College		USA
Lew Hitchener		CalPoly				USA
Jacqui Whalley		Auckland U. of Technology	New Zealand
Joe Bergin		Pace Uni			USA
Kate Sanders		Rhode Island College		USA
Raymond Lister***	U. of Technology, SydneyS	Australia
Carsten Schulte		Free Uni Berlin			Germany
Tony Clear***		Auckland U. of Technology	New Zealand
*** The asterisks indicate the working group leaders.

A list of the 99 Postings to SIGCSE-members that were used in this study

SIGCSE Members Discussion, Volume 1, pp. 1 to 82 (.pdf, 5.6Mb)
SIGCSE Members Discussion, Volume 2, pp. 83 to 180 (.pdf, 6.2Mb)

See also JTF Problem Taxonomy, Chapter 3: "Taxonomy of Problems in Teaching Java"

SIGCSE-MEMBERS archive, March 2004, week 3.
The discussion began in week 3 of March 2004, but didn't get a full head of steam until the following week. When reading through the email archive for the first time, we suggest you skim the the week 3 emails and move quickly to the week 4 emails. In week 3 the three relevant threads are:

SIGCSE-MEMBERS archive, March 2004, week 4
This is the week in which most of the discussion took place. See the following threads:

SIGCSE-MEMBERS archive, May 2004, week 2
A couple of late postings.

sigcse-members@ACM.ORG: The complete archive, from 1996 until today

A List of Other Resources (Word document) This is a list of papers and other documents that may be used by the working group. The documents listed here are in addition to: (1) The above links into the SIGCSE-members email archive, and (2) the papers listed in the "Full working group proposal", which is available on this web site (near the top).


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