An unorthodox Aussie computer science lecturer Richard Buckland is trying to get students interested in programming by using YouTube.

Buckland from University of NSW, is offering high school students the chance to get started on their computing degrees early. He said he was frustrated that people with a passion for computing are not being challenged by courses offered at high school.

Despite trying to get the geeks to his courses, most of them could not attend because they were locked into High School classes. He has filmed all of his first-year computing lectures and published them on UNSW's YouTube channel and on Apple's iTunes.

Buckland is inviting high school students with a strong interest in computing and mathematics to study an advanced first-year university level computing course for free.