Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : Roedy Green
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 06:41 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.

The key thing I have found useful in lecture notes is CODE.
Super-commented code explains far more clearly than any natural
language exposition which tends to slide into a sales pitch or rant.

It also lets you deal with a mixture of very bright and very slow
people. The bright ones absorb all the details of the code. The slow
ones just listen to your overall commentary.

You might see if you can find someone who has been to one of the
Colorado Software conferences to see the notes they provide. They do
use slides. You get the slides which are generally not that useful,
but they give additional notes. These are aimed for peer to peer
communication.

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