For a few years around ~2008 I was the course lecturer for
The University of Edinburgh's
Introduction to Java Programming (IJP):
a Masters-level, intensive 12-week crash-course in object-oriented
programming with about 70 students per year.
IJP had a focus on code design and a diverse cohort of
international students. It was mostly intended for MSc students from
other subjects (e.g. Bioinformatics) who hadn't learned programming in
their undergraduate degrees, but would need it as a skill in their
postgraduate careers.
During my time as lecturer I converted the course from a traditional
lecture-hall experience to one based on pre-recorded screencasts.
Students watched the screencasts online in their own time and could refer
back to them as needed, and all of their contact-time with myself and the
other teaching staff was spent in computer labs working on actual
programming exercises, instead of sleeping through long lectures.
This was a new idea at the time: it was the first time it had been done
for any course at The University of Edinburgh and I wasn't aware of it
being done anywhere else either. It later became popular and was called a
"flipped classroom".
The University continued to use my screencasts to teach the course for
several years after I left. No one should use these screencasts to learn
Java or object-oriented programming today: they're really old. I'm just
publishing them here for archival purposes.