Subj : Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : clemenr
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 03:12 pm

Hi. I'm about to write some notes for a university level Java
programming course, specialising in audio/midi applications.

I have quite a bit of experience in designing teaching materials for
programming courses in Java and other languages. However, one thing
that I've never really felt that I've optimised is the organisation of
material on the slides (openoffice, similar to powerpoint) used during
teaching.

I'd like to ask if anyone knows of some programming course they've
taken or are taking where the use of slides/powerpoint was really
effective. It doesn't need to be a Java course as I'm interested in
lookng more at presentation and lecture design styles rather than
content? I've done a lot of searching on the net, but haven't found
anything that I feel is clearly better than what I do now.

Any recommendations? Either online notes, or if the notes are not
publically available, could any readers of this please tell me the
lecturer/prof's name, university, and the name of the course and I can
ask for a sample lecture directly.  Or, if other teachers are reading
this, I'd like to hear what they do.

Note: I'm aware of arguments that traditional lectures are not
necessarily the only nor best way of teaching programming, but for the
meantime at least, I have to work in a particular environment that
expects reasonably traditional lectures to occur along with practical
laboratories.

Thanks in anticipation,

Ross-c

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