Take Your Object Oriented Quiz

July 19, 2006

Object orientation is a large part of software development. When I was in college, I can remember tons of lessons and test covering the fundamentals of OO development. Felipe Gaucho has come up with a quiz that he says is great for teachers interested in offering their pupils a revision material and also to interchange ideas about how to enhance the OO teaching methodologies.

One of the most tricky parts to learn Object Orientation is the concept of classification. The task of separating entities of the real word in groups and then enumerating the characteristics of each group seems quite simple for experienced programmers but could be messy for novice students. The discussion about the fundamentals of classification is very important to establish a baseline about what are classes. A clean explanation about this subject is a challenge for the teachers and the fluency about the OO terminology is the first duty for absolute beginners in Java or any other object oriented programming language. This test is not closed to Java - it was created to be independent of programming languages.

The audience: this test could be useful for teachers interested in offer their pupils a revision material and also to interchange ideas about how to enhance the OO teaching methodologies. The students of introductorial classes about Java and OO could check their knowledge and discuss variations about the answers. The feedback from the students brainstorm and also from the teachers usage of this material is the most valuable result I can expect from this text. The questions below are the result of a continuous effort in order to facilitate the learning of the basic concepts of classification. If you remember an amazing question - the one that helped you to figure out the idea of classes, objects and its relationships, post your comments on the bottom of this page.

Take the test, and see how you do.

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