Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : Roedy Green
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 06:26 am

On 2 Sep 2005 14:12:33 -0700, clemenr@wmin.ac.uk wrote or quoted :

>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.

I used to teach a tutorial at UBC, Fortran and assembler. I would
freak out my students my telling them they were not allowed to take
notes.  They had to GET what I was saying, not just write it down.

No student ever failed.  I had THEM at the boards writing code most of
the time. I could then easily tell if they were getting what I was
teaching.  It was unconventional, but very popular.  I had all kinds
of students transfer in.
 
Today, doing the same thing, I would give them an URL with the notes
to read ahead of time and after time. I would never dream of using
slides.  You have to grab the students' attention and make every
moment memorable, just the same as if you were dealing with second
graders.




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