Elementary Patterns
and their Role in Instruction

This is the home page for the ChiliPLoP workshop Elementary Patterns and their Role in Instruction and, if our work there is worth continuing, for the project beyond that point. Our group will be making many additions to the page over the next couple of weeks.

Now that the workshop is over, visit the Elementary Patterns home page.

Workshop Documents

• Final Report of Workshop Activities, to be presented at the OOPSLA'98 Educators Symposium

• Loop Patterns, submitted to PLoP'98
• An Event Handling Pattern for Java, submitted to PLoP'98

• Schedule of Workshop Activities
• Call for Participation
• Original Hot Topic Proposal
• ChiliPLoP'98 Home Page

Workshop Participants

• Focus Group 1 -- Patterns in Early O-O
  • Joe Bergin and Simple Design Patterns
  • Robert Duvall and Use of Patterns in Early Courses
  • Ed Epp and Patterns in Computer Science Using Java

• Focus Group 2 -- Patterns in CS1-Level Programming
  • Owen Astrachan and Use of Patterns in Early Courses
  • Rick Mercer and Patterns in a CS1 Design Scenario
  • Eugene Wallingford and his personal goals for the Hot Topic

Some Initial Ideas

If you have some ideas that go beyond your submission and that you would like for us all to consider before arriving in Phoenix, let's post them here. Just send me a URL or an HTML file...

• Some ways to use patterns in class

• Links to some class sessions that directly involve Roundabout

Other Work Relevant to our Topic

• Simply Understood Code
• Some programming patlets by Ward Cunningham (the ensuing discussion is less relevant)
• Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
• Other Kent Beck patterns
  • Temporary Variables
  • Code Formatting
  • Early Development
• Roundabout, a pattern language for recursive programming
• Speak the Problem's Language
• James Noble's Basic Relationship Patterns and Arguments and Results (object design)
• Clancy and Linn's Designing Pascal Solutions

Other Links of Interest

• The Patterns home page
• Tips for Writing Pattern Languages
• Patterns for a Writer's Workshop
• A Pattern Language for Pattern Writing
• PLoP'98
• Pedagogical Patterns