Good ideas for OOP teaching?

Good ideas for OOP teaching?

[isanabri]

Hello everybody,
	I would like to know the academic experiences of those of you
whose have been involved in Object-Oriented Programming course planning.
I am preparing the material for a graduate course on OOP.  My dilemma
is to avoid thinking that a good OOP course is the same as the study of
one or several especific OO languages (OOL).  In other words, studying
OOLs and their differences does not make an OOP course interested and meaningful.
Well, people may think strong fundations on OOP can be build by using
OOL real experiences, I agree with it.  But how far away these
experiences have to go in a 16 weeks course (3 hours a week).
Introducing people to the OO paradigma may result in a shock at the
begining, how to avoid it?
Which may be to most recomended OOLs to review (ST80, C++, CLOS,
VisualBasic, Turbo Pascal 7.0,...)?
Is there any good book that addresses this problem that you may
recomend? Sequences of Articles?  OOP course structures or plans?
Would this course include real-life applications (database connections, GUIs, ..)?
What about teaching some aspects of analysis and design using this paradigm?

I would really appreciate if you could answer directly to me at:
	isanabri@cic.itcr.ac.cr
I have problems with me nn software.

Thanks in advance,

Ivan Sanabria

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Lic. Ivan Sanabria, MSc.
Centro de Investigaciones en Computacion
Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica