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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS
Transactions ID Number: 54-130
Full Name: Khalid Al-Tahat
Position: Assistant Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: 60 Findon Street, Sheffield
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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E-mail address: ktahat@yahoo.com
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Title of the Paper: "Teaching UML Modelling with the Help of Alice"
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Khalid Al-Tahat
Email addresses of all the authors: ktahat@yahoo.com
Number of paper pages: 12
Abstract: Object-oriented modelling is considered to be complicated to teach and learn in introductory courses in computer science and software engineering. Animated program visualisation can be significantly beneficial in supporting teaching object-oriented modelling for beginners. However, there is a lack in instructional methods that supports such approach. This paper bridges this gap by introducing a new instructional method for teaching object-oriented modelling using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) with the help of a visualised 3D programming environment; Alice. The proposed instructional method is the first of it is kind to introduce teaching software modelling with the support of animated visualisation tool. The basic approach is to extract the UML components from a 3D Alice world and then map these components to build the UML model that represents that world. This approach shows that animated program visualisation has the potential to help in teaching other asp!
ects of software development process besides programming including modelling.
Keywords: Teaching software modelling, Teaching UML, UML static model, Object-oriented paradigm, Visualisation, Alice
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How Did you learn about congress: Education, Modelling, Software Engineering, Visualization, Object-Oriented Programming
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