manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I'm familiar with two schools of thinking for approaching an introductory level class in an object oriented language: objects-late, and objects-early. In objects-late, you teach various procedural aspects (variables, loops, boolean manipulations, etc) before you delve into objects at all, and then use objects as a way to organize larger chunks of code.

In objects-early, you begin with the object-oriented paradigm, and then delve into method construction, and finally into the procedural aspects of coding that way.

I truly don't understand this second approach or its merits. What are potential benefits of beginning with objects, and how can you structure the early parts of a course in order to even permit this?

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