Teaching and learning programming has presented many challenges in institutions of higher learning worldwide. Teaching and learning programming require cognitive reasoning, mainly due to the fundamental reality that the underlying concepts are complex and abstract. As a result, many institutions of higher learning are faced with low success rates in programming courses. This paper presents the design and development of an interactive multimedia simulation (IMS) prototype for augmenting the teaching and learning of programming concepts. An initial requirements elicitation was conducted with the purpose of obtaining the perceptions of programming lecturers and students regarding the programming concepts that present teaching and learning difficulties. The results of this requirements elicitation informed the design and development of an IMS prototype. A design-based research methodology was used which resulted in both a practical and theoretical contribution, i.e. a fully-functional IMS and an evaluation framework for the evaluation of such simulations. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579282.]