OO development life cycle-a videotaped teaching resource

Object-oriented technology (OOT), a shift of focus from programming concepts towards the software development process have taken hold in both the academic and industrial sectors. This shift and the lack of formal background and practical experience with the new techniques lead to a certain confusion among instructors. A lack of teaching resources to overcome this gap has been identified as one of the main problems in teaching object-oriented technology. To deal with this problem, the authors have prepared a script for creating a mixed-media teaching resource for presenting the OO development life cycle in a simplified but realistic setting, and gathered material for a prototype based on this script. In this paper, they explain their goals, describe their approach, outline the current state of the project and describe what they have learned.