Preface -- Instructor's Guide


Preface, Tracks
The instructor's guide accompanying Principles of Object-Oriented Software Development provides the slides, in a format suitable for presentation, around which the material in the book is organized. In addition, the instructor's guide provides hints and indicates potential difficulties in presenting the material to students. Each chapter summarizes and gives a brief sketch of the rationale underlying the selection of material for that chapter. Further, for each section, a brief recapitulation is given of the objectives, that is the ideas and insights the section is intended to convey, and also an indication is given of points to emphasize and possible difficulties. Also, for each chapter, suggestions are given for project assignments. These suggestions are based on project assignments to students at the Vrije Universiteit, which range from writing a paper (three weeks), a programming project (six weeks) and small research projects (four months). Finally, I have included some comments, which undoubtly reflect my own experience in presenting the material to students, to encourage the instructor to augment the presentation with material to his or her taste.