To support the creation, editing, storage, retrieval, and transmission of electronic multimedia documents, a system must maintain and manage complex, nonhierarchical relationships among the documents and their constituent components. A basic set of high level object classes that can be used in a hybrid object oriented development environment to represent complex documents, their constituent parts, and interrelationships is presented. These object classes are intended to provide a stable base for development of a PC-based document management system.

Abstrac tNot every student has the same experience base . Putting all students into the same class settin g without regard to experiences can be catastrophi c for experienced students, inexperienced students an d instructors . A course approach, called a theor y seminar, combines the strengths of regular classes , independent studies, and evaluations of prio r experiences . A theory seminar has been develope d for a computer algorithms course . Introductio n