How to teach programming is a hot topic again. 23 years ago (!) I wrote a paper titled “Guidelines for Teaching Object Orientation with Java” that provided some guidelines (eight, to be exact).

And although, as the title suggests, this was specific to OO and Java, I was wondering how many of these would stand up today. I was surprised to see that almost all of it – I think – is still relevant, and almost all of it we still cannot take for granted.

So I will, over the next few days, revisit the guidelines here, one at a time, and add my comments outlining how much of each I think still applies in “modern times”.

Watch this space over the next week or two for the discussion.