Com S 541 -- Programming Languages 1			January 19, 1993

	     HOMEWORK 0-A: What is interesting about OOP?

Due: January 24, 1992

A small midwest company is going to have its programmers learn Smalltalk.
You have been hired to give a short motivational talk about the benefits
of object-oriented programming (OOP) and Smalltalk.  Your presentation should
address the following points:
	* what is different about OOP from standard programming?
	* what are the benefits of OOP?
	* what lessons someone programming in another language (such as C)
		could learn by learning Smalltalk.
You might want to look at the book by Cox in the ``Introduction to the
Literature'' or other books mentioned there for help.

This is a group project.  Your group is to
	* prepare a written summary of your arguments, and
	* make a short (about 5-6 minute) oral presentation
The style of oral presentation is up to you; you can have one
person talk, or several.

(If you need transparencies or copies made, let Gary know
far enough in advance to have them made in time for the class.)