An observation on OOP exploration

[wtd]

I know that I've made my feelings on the Turing language and environment clear, but aside from that, I'd like to say something about Turing programmers themselves.

I see some students trying to piece together how classes and objects work in Turing. I also suspect from what I've seen and heard on this site, that most courses using Turing never really get that far, and that fewer still instructors are able to offer assistance.

That makes these students people to respect.

[Clayton]

I don't really see what the big deal is wtd, I still think time would be better spent learning new languages

[wtd]

It probably would be. However, it does show initiative, and all other things aside, I can respect that.

[ericfourfour]

I learned OOP on Turing and I did it in my own time. However, I think it would have gone a lot faster if I knew how pointers worked and had experience dealing with them.

[uberwalla]

see how it mostly goes at my school is that the teachers really dont know much at all about turing or even java. their mostly textbook readers.

most of the stuff ive been doing ive learnt by myself with help from people here at compsci. now im not saying im a good programmer but from what your taking about wtd your right. theres only one person in my school that i know thats gone further then what the class has done other then me. and he is trying to make a pokemon game lol. anyways i think that if most tech teachers that teach turing and some other languages were less textbook readers and more hands-on then there would be more classes that teach classes and stuff.

(now dont think if you are a teacher or someone who has teachers different that i am saying ALL techers are like this. [this is just my point of view that i have seen in my school])

[ericfourfour]

I do not think that the teacher could teach OOP in the first year. The second year you learn Java. Why not save it for a language based solely around objects? This is how it is done at my school, so there is no point for the teacher to understand OOP in Turing.

This however, does not mean you will be taught proper OOP. Or actually taught it on a proper environment using a good compiler. For these reasons, I suggest learning OOP on your own well before your teacher teaches it (I would recommend at least 6 months prior). I also suggest learning it in a different language.

[Clayton]

IE. Ruby.

Ruby is an excellent language to learn OOP from, because in Ruby, everything is an object. Not to mention how easy it is to create and use your own classes, it really makes you want to do it.

[uberwalla]

the weirdest thing to what you said eric... at my school (highschool 9-12) turing is basically first 2 years then a bit of java at end of 2nd then java the next two. basically grd 9-10 turing 11-12 java

[ericfourfour]

@Freakman
I agree, Ruby is an excellent choice. I started it today and I am thoroughly impressed. I was doing that online tutorial until I kept messing up the names repeatedly because I spelt "book" instead of "books". I then decided to download it and just go through wtd's tutorials.

@uberwalla
You get programming in grade 9? You are lucky. Oh well, I guess that is what I get for going to a new school. I bet the teacher could get away with putting off OOP until Java in that case too. I feel it came early in my school (no one knew how to make a method at the time).

[uberwalla]

well mostly in grade 9 it was like tech and buisness. tech was like turing, auto cad, corel draw (LOL), adobe photoshop , html.
and then 10 is like html and turing only and there are then shop class, buisness and more. tech classes just start splitting into more categories at my school as grades move on lol. its confusing on what is in what class

[Wolf_Destiny]

Yeah...my CompSci teacher didn't know how to use arrays...'nuf said.

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[ZeroPaladn]

Wolf_Destiny wrote:

Yeah...my CompSci teacher didn't know how to use arrays...'nuf said.

Then your teacher sucked. Not to be rude, but arrays are grade 10/11 basics, and any teacher sanctioned to teach CompSci should know them.

My school system for programming is as follows:

• Grade 9 - none
  
• Grade 10 - Turing/HTML
  
• Grade 11 - Turing/VB6
  
• Grade 12 - VB/Java/HTML
  

I downloaded Ruby a little while ago, I started teaching myself. Haven'g gotten very far, but I'm getting there.

[ericfourfour]

Anyway, back on topic. I think a lot of this respect should go to cervantes for writing the tutorials on OOP in Turing or else I, along with many others, would not have learned it in Turing.

[Cervantes]

Thank you!

But then, whatever respect is directed towards me should be redirected towards wtd for teaching me the majority of what I know.

[Clayton]

Either way, I've learned a great deal more from both of you (Cervantes and wtd) than I ever did in class. Don't be so modest.