Everything about Method (computer programming)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Method (computer programming)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Impact of ChatGPT on learning outcomes and performance of students in computer programming courses: a mixed-method approachInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Java software solutionsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: PBL and Computer Programming — The Seven Steps Method with AdaptationsCited 57 times
5. Go sideways: Virtual functionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Inheritance (object-oriented programming)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• PBL and Computer Programming — The Seven Steps Method with Adaptations

  Esko Nuutila, Seppo Törmä, Lauri Malmi · 2005 · Computer Science Education · 57 citations

• Computer programming methodology

  W. M. Turski, Anthony I. Wasserman · 1978 · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 17 citations

• A method for evaluating student written computer programs in an undergraduate computer science programming language course

  Nancy E. Miller, Charles G. Peterson · 1980 · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 7 citations

• Computer-generated-hologram-accelerated computing method based on mixed programming

  Yaping Zhang Yaping Zhang, Wang Peng Wang Peng, Hong Chen Hong Chen · 2014 · Chinese Optics Letters · 4 citations

• Efficient tree-generation method suitable for computer programming

  A.G.J. Holt, J.K. Fidler · 1968 · Electronics Letters · 3 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Impact of ChatGPT on learning outcomes and performance of students in computer programming courses: a mixed-method approach

  Omobola Gambo, Olabamiji John Onifade, Wasiu Olanrewaju-Smart · 2026 · Discover Education · 6 citations

• Immune Plasma Programming: A new evolutionary computation-based automatic programming method

  Sibel Arslan · 2024 · Applied Soft Computing · 5 citations

• Predictors of university students’ intentions to enroll in computer programming courses: a mixed-method investigation

  Jiali Zheng, Melissa Duffy, Ge Zhu · 2024 · Discover Education · 3 citations

• Revalidation on Computer Programming Self-Efficacy Scale using Fuzzy-Delphi Method Approach

  Nor Zalina Binti Ismail, Mohd Rizal Bin Razak · 2022 · International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences · 0 citations

• Explicit Instruction-based Methodology forTeaching Introductory Computer Programming

  Department of Computer Science, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, Alain Kabo Mbiada, Bassey Isong · 2025 · International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Java software solutionsLewis, John, John E. Lewis Ph. D. · 1997
• IBM PC ApprenticeInc. Wordware Pub., Leonard Paul Kubiak · 1984
• Classical and object-oriented software engineeringStephen R. Schach · 1996
• SPSS ExplainedPerry R. Hinton, Charlotte Brownlow · 2004
• UML distilledMartin Fowler · 1997
• Presentation ZenGarr Reynolds · 2007
• Applying UML and patternsCraig Larman · 1998
• Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial DataYves Hilpisch · 2014

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🔗 Related topics

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• Method overriding Method overriding, in object-oriented programming, is a language feature that allows a subclass or child class to provide a specific implementation of…
• Template method pattern In object-oriented programming, the template method is one of the behavioral design patterns identified by Gamma et al. in the book Design Patterns. The…
• Curiously recurring template pattern The curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP) is an idiom in which a class derives from a class template instantiation using itself as a template parameter…
• Destructor (computer programming) In object-oriented programming, a destructor (sometimes abbreviated dtor) is a method which is invoked mechanically just before the memory of the object…
• Singleton pattern In object-oriented programming, the singleton pattern is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to a singular instance.…
• Fragile base class The fragile base class problem is a fundamental architectural problem of object-oriented programming systems where base classes (superclasses) are considered…