Cognitive Differences Between Procedural Programming and Object Oriented Programming

Software development is moving from procedural programming towards object-oriented programming (OOP). Past studies in cognitive aspects of programming have focused primarily on procedural programming languages. Object-oriented programming is a new paradigm for computing. Industry is finding that pro...

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Published in:Information technology and management Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 333 - 350
Main Authors: White, Garry, Sivitanides, Marcos
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer Nature B.V 01.10.2005
Subjects:
Behavior
Brain research
C plus plus
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive development
Cognitive style
Computer programming
Computer science
Designers
Impact analysis
Java
Logic
Object oriented programming
Programmers
Programming languages
Software
Storage area networks
Students
Studies
ISSN:1385-951X, 1573-7667
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Summary:Software development is moving from procedural programming towards object-oriented programming (OOP). Past studies in cognitive aspects of programming have focused primarily on procedural programming languages. Object-oriented programming is a new paradigm for computing. Industry is finding that programmers are having difficulty shifting to this new programming paradigm. Findings in prior research revealed that procedural programming requires Piaget's formal operation cognitive level. New from this research is that OOP also requires Piaget's formal operation cognitive level. Also new is that OOP appears to be unrelated to hemispheric cognitive style. OOP appears to be hemispheric style friendly, while procedural programming is preferential to left hemispheric cognitive style. The conclusion is that cognitive requirements are not the cause for the difficulty in shifting from procedural to OOP. An alternative possibility to the difficulty is proactive interference of learning procedural programming prior to learning object oriented programming.
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ISSN:1385-951X
1573-7667
DOI:10.1007/s10799-005-3899-2