Difficulties teaching Java in CS1 and how we aim to solve them. - George R. S. Weir; Tamar Vilner; António José Mendes; Marie Nordström (ITiCSE, 2005)

Evaluating OO example programs for CS1. - Jürgen Börstler; Henrik Bærbak Christensen; Jens Bennedsen; Marie Nordström; Lena Kallin Westin; Jan Erik Moström; Michael E. Caspersen (ITiCSE, 2008)

Transitioning to OOP/Java - A Never Ending Story. - Jürgen Börstler; Marie Nordström; Lena Kallin Westin; Jan Erik Moström; Johan Eliasson (Reflections on the Teaching of Programming, 2008)

An evaluation of object oriented example programs in introductory programming textbooks. - Jürgen Börstler; Mark S. Hall; Marie Nordström; James H. Paterson; Kate Sanders 001; Carsten Schulte 001; Lynda Thomas (ACM SIGCSE Bull., 2009)

Object oriented quality in introductory programming education. - Marie Nordström (2010)

Educators' strategies for object-oriented analysis and design. - Marie Nordström (Inroads, 2011)

On the Quality of Examples in Introductory Java Textbooks. - Jürgen Börstler; Marie Nordström; James H. Paterson (ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2011)

Beauty and the Beast: on the readability of object-oriented example programs. - Jürgen Börstler; Michael E. Caspersen; Marie Nordström (Softw. Qual. J., 2016)