Graphical Development Environment for Object Programming Teaching Support

Abstract

The main goal of this contribution is to present the current solution of a graphical development environment for object programming teaching support. Presented software tool was created to simplify the understanding process of the basics of the object-oriented programming for JAVA language beginners. Therefore, we have been developing an application called FRIMAN at the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics at the University of Žilina. Suggested system consists of several cooperating modules. In this paper, we focus on description of selected two modules and their current functionality. The attention is paid to a module for class management and a graphical code editor, which enables creation of code bodies of methods by flow diagrams without the necessity of programing language syntax knowledge. Based on good evaluation of the development team preparing changes in the high school education process, the current application is planned to be applied in practice.