http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/maillist.html ide4edu-dev en-us Fri, 03 May 2013 17:29:40 GMT Fri, 03 May 2013 17:29:40 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss MHonArc RSS 2.0 RCFile webmaster@eclipse.org (Webmaster) webmaster@eclipse.org (Webmaster) http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse.org-common/themes/Phoenix/images/eclipse_home_header.jpg http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/maillist.html http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00193.html Hi: I am Masters student in Software Engineering, and am working on my (minor) thesis. My chosen topic is the use of analogies in teaching Object Oriented concepts, and more specifically, the provisioning of analogies within Eclipse to try to help studen... Hi:

I am Masters student in Software Engineering, and am working on my (minor) thesis.  My chosen topic is the use of analogies in teaching Object Oriented concepts, and more specifically, the provisioning of analogies within Eclipse to try to help students grasp OO concepts.

I have not been using Eclipse for very long, but have been using it while learning Java.  My (historical) programming background is procedural, and in my many attempts at learning Java, it finally struck me that the obstacle I kept bumping up against was my lack of understanding of the basic OO concepts.  In my quest at grasping these concepts, I found that the use of analogies was of considerable benefit.  Then I had a closer look at Eclipse.  As Eclipse is primarily aimed at the professional development community, it provides many tools to assist in code completion, debugging, refactoring, package building and the rest.  And for the novice programmer, it assists in all of these things, but totally ignores the "elephant in the room", that the understanding of OO concepts is central to the understand of OO programming.  And there is nothing (that I have found) in Eclipse that addresses the need to understand these concepts.

On that basis, my thesis statement is "How effectively does the provisioning of analogies within the Eclipse IDE promote the learning of Object Oriented programming concepts?".

In reviewing the literature, I came across a paper on Penumbra (Mueller & Hosking), which then led me to the "Eclipse IDE for Education".  As this appears to fit broadly my area of interest, I thought I would put a posting here and see if there is any response.  My idea is to develop a plugin that would present analogies (in text form) that cover many of the basic OO concepts.  I am undecided yet as to how to present these.  I am mindful of the reason for the Penumbra perspective (i.e. to present a simplified perspective to novice programmers), I do not want to add to students being overwhelmed by the IDE.  I think the least intrusive mechanism would be to add to / modify the "Help" system, to make these analogies available as needed.  Another would be to present these in a separate view, but then this would have to be selected as needed.  I can't see a way (at the moment) to make these context sensitive (based on code in the editor), as OO concepts are not always obvious from the code (with the possible exception of the "new" keyword). 


As I said, I am relatively new to Eclipse, and have not yet developed any plug-ins.  I would appreciate any feedback that anyone here might be willing too offer (don't be afraid to tell me off for a dumb idea.. ).

Many thanks,

Rory
]]> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:09:42 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00193.html roryforde@xxxxxxx (Rory Forde) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00192.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * Project home page (projecturl = http://www.eclipse.org/ide4edu)... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * Project home page (projecturl = http://www.eclipse.org/ide4edu) does not have an "About <project>","About This Project" or "Information about <project>" link. Projects are required to provide that standard link on their home page (see http://www.eclipse.org/projects/standard-link-on-home-page.php) . The 'About' link should point to this URL: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=technology.id e4edu * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:00:06 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00192.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00191.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * Project home page (projecturl = http://www.eclipse.org/ide4edu)... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * Project home page (projecturl = http://www.eclipse.org/ide4edu) does not have an "About <project>","About This Project" or "Information about <project>" link. Projects are required to provide that standard link on their home page (see http://www.eclipse.org/projects/standard-link-on-home-page.php) . The 'About' link should point to this URL: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=technology.id e4edu * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:00:21 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00191.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00190.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * Project home page (projecturl = http://www.eclipse.org/ide4edu)... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * Project home page (projecturl = http://www.eclipse.org/ide4edu) does not have an "About <project>","About This Project" or "Information about <project>" link. Projects are required to provide that standard link on their home page (see http://www.eclipse.org/projects/standard-link-on-home-page.php) . The 'About' link should point to this URL: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=technology.id e4edu ]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:00:11 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00190.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00189.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse pr... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:00:21 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00189.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00188.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse pr... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:00:22 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00188.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00187.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse pr... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:00:17 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00187.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00186.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse pr... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Sat, 05 May 2012 04:00:18 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00186.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00185.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse pr... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:00:18 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00185.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00184.html Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse pr... Dwight, Wayne, Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found with this project's meta-data: * There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects must have a "next release" planned and scheduled. ]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:17 GMT http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide4edu-dev/msg00184.html emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo)