Treffer: Hello, World Considered Harmful.

This article focuses on problems regarding learning to program using the object-oriented programming. The author says that it should be more natural to learn object-oriented programming than procedural. The author suggests that the way object-oriented programming is initially presented is a significant part of the problem. The author had taught an introductory Java class. No matter how often he explained the object-oriented concept, some students continued to have difficulties in implementing it in their projects. The author finds that Hello, World, a computer program, is where the problem begins. He argues that this program or an equivalent program in many Java programming language books is harmful to the development of object-think. The article discusses this program and the author provides a solution to the problem associated with it. The important thing is to present this solution to learners at the very beginning and have them type it into their own computers. This will help imprint the concept immediately, so they do not have to unlearn a procedural approach.