Instructional Design and Learning Theory on the Development of C plus plus Programming Multimedia Content

This paper discusses on the possibility of taking advantage of the well-served Gagne's theory of learning and combining it with the benefits of instructional design. Such potent combination can surely be extended further with the integration of advance multimedia is undoubtedly helpful in today's education realm. The best off all these factors may have positive impact on the teaching and learning scenario. Hopefully it has an optimistic bearing on the study of computer programming for non-computer science students when an interactive multimedia application is developed based on Gagne's theory of learning. (C) 2012 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of i-Learn Centre, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.