[Edu-sig] Best approach to teaching OOP and graphics

[Winston Wolff]

I think graphics is a great way to teach programming, because it gives 
such strong feedback to the students.

How about making a small graphics library that has Shape objects.  You 
create a shape object and manipulate it's attributes such as position, 
color, size, numOfVertices (triangle, square, pentagram), etc.  Then 
you can teach subclassing a shape object, and finally making your own 
from scratch.  PyGame of course is a great environment to build such a 
thing.

-ww


> As an active lurker on the edu-sig list, I therefore decided to present
> my small "dilemma" here. How do you think OOP and graphics could best 
> be
> introduced in high schools? Is one of my alternatives OK, or do you 
> have
> other suggestions? The fact that the students will be working in pairs
> will hardly affect the choice of teaching approach.
>
> Best Python-regards,
>
> Linda Grandell
> Åbo Akademi University
> Turku, Finland
>
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