[Help Needed] Transitioning to Object Oriented Programming

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Foster

So not to be a stickler for words but "visual programming and object oriented" are two different concepts.

Originally Posted by Phoenix Spud

Absolutely! My project looks at how to help students transition between these different paradigms. A number of researchers have noted this transition is difficult (as I think many FIRST alumni like myself know first hand) but there is very little information on why this is difficult.

I don't think you understand. The concepts of "visual programming" and "object oriented" are not choices on the same scale. They are separate and unrelated. There is no such thing as transitioning between them; each can be used, or not, independent of the other.

The "difficult transition" you are positing is probably between procedural and dataflow languages, or perhaps between non-object-oriented and object-oriented ones. Talking about visual programming in this context is only a distraction.