In the introductory programming course at ETH Zurich the students work with a large object-oriented framework. The main objective of this project is to redesign the framework in a way that it will be easy to understand, to use, and to extend, even for first year students.

Furthermore this project includes the improvement of the framework visualisation by using the open source and platform-independent multimedia library ESDL. Therefore I will have to enhance the ESDL library to our needs.

We also intend to develop a test procedure to survey the success of an object-oriented introductory programming course.