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On the Use of Concept Maps to Improve Student Skills in an Introductory Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Course

Authors José F. Vélez, A. Belén Moreno, Victoria Ruiz-Parrado, Ángel Sánchez

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  • Software and its engineering
  • Software and its engineering → Object oriented frameworks
  • Applied computing → Education
Keywords
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Concept Map
  • Abstraction
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML)
  • Static Class Diagram

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Abstract

This paper presents an ongoing work on the application of concept maps to teaching an introductory Object-Oriented Analysis and Design course for Computer Science students. There exist previous works that introduce the concept map model in these object-oriented courses. However, these works do not usually go deeply enough into the transition from concept maps to static class diagrams. Although concept maps present some clear advantages when defining the abstractions present in object-oriented software modeling, some drawbacks may also appear if the transformation from these maps to class diagrams when the task is carried out through simplistic rules. In this paper we propose an approach, which is illustrated through a use case, to transition from a concept map to a static class diagram in a more realistic way.

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José F. Vélez, A. Belén Moreno, Victoria Ruiz-Parrado, and Ángel Sánchez. On the Use of Concept Maps to Improve Student Skills in an Introductory Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Course. In 6th International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 133, pp. 3:1-3:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2025.3

Author Details

José F. Vélez
  • Depto. Informática y Estadística, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
A. Belén Moreno
  • Depto. Informática y Estadística, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Victoria Ruiz-Parrado
  • Depto. Informática y Estadística, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Ángel Sánchez
  • Depto. Informática y Estadística, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Funding

  • Sánchez, Ángel: Gratefully acknowledge the financial support given by the Spanish MICINN Project: PID2021-124064OB-I00, and the URJC Educational Computing Project: PIE24_066.

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