Multimedia project

This page is the home of the multimedia learning material project of Helsinki University of Technology. Most presentations created during the project are narrated in Finnish and they can be found at Finnish site. Our two English presentations can be found below.

The main goals for this project have been to study the possibilities of online multimedia material in teaching basic concepts and skills in computer science.

Viewing these videos online requires the Adobe Flash Player-plug-in. You can also download the videos as MPEG-4 -files and watch them using VLC-player.

English presentations


Duration: 4:54
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TRAKLA2 Introduction

TRAKLA2 is an environment for learning data structures and algorithms. The system provides algorithm simulation exercises that can be automatically graded. This presentation introduces the tool concentrating on the teacher's point of view.


Duration: 9:36
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Hello, world!

In this presentation we will demonstrate what a simple Java program looks like. The program will only print one line of text to the screen.

We will also briefly explain the process that is required to execute a Java program using command line tools.