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An interactive children's story is presented as a unifying class project for CS 2. Curricular topics include: data and algorithm abstraction, project dynamics (team work, software engineering and ethics), multi-media techniques, and hypermedia story telling. We encompass alternative learning styles by fostering collaborative team work, and promoting the big picture over esoteric detail. Students receive a detailed design document, extensive code libraries, and graphic, sound and video files. A story board gives them ample room for individual creativity and whimsy. The project is implemented in C++. This paper describes curricular goals, articulates management concerns and summarizes our past experiences.

An interactive children's story is presented as a unifying class project for CS 2. Curnctdar topics include: data and algorithm abstraction, project dynamics (team work, software engineering and ethics), multi-media techniques, and hypermedia story telling.We encompass alternative learning styles by fostering collaborative team work, and promoting the big picture over esoteric detail. Students receive a detailed design document, extensive code libraries, and graphic, sound and video files. A story board gives them ample room for individual creativity and whimsy. The project is implemented in C++.This paper describes curricular goals, articulates management concerns and summarizes our past experiences.

We address the problems of effectively teaching introductory programming in the multi-media age. We provide a short history on user interfaces, contrasting the line o~iented, turn taking dialogue model with the event driven, desktop model. We summarize the major conceptual outcomes of this shift: the event model itself, the object-oriented paradigm, and the more detailed classification of 1/0 types. We describe how the current generation of tools rely on programmer convention, thus encouraging sloppy coding. We constrast three current approaches to teaching programming with multi-media and present an approach that exploits the advantages of all three.