Get started on your degree
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.