Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : Patricia Shanahan
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 01:01 am

JESSE.SAMUELS@gmail.com wrote:
> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
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>>>>I would like your tutorial, because I can't think and do handwriting at
>>>>the same time. I try to avoid any substantial note taking, to the extent
>>>>of using a digital camera to capture blackboard material.
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>>>Some teachers don't like tape recorders, although I suppose you could
>>>be surreptitious about "bugging" the class.  Do you get objections from
>>>the teachers about the camera?
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>>No objections. Each time I requested and received permission at the
>>start of the course.
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> cool.  What kind of phone is it?  4mega pixel?  3x optical zoom?

I used an actual digital camera, not a phone, a Sony Cybershot 5.0
megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, and 128 MB memory stick, but I'm
sure other choices would work equally well. 128 MB was plenty for a
few lectures, but would not have done a whole course - I had to transfer
files to hard disk regularly.

It requires a combination of light collecting power, to take indoor
photos without using flash, and image resolution, to be able to read
details such as superscripts and subscripts. I made sure I bought the
camera at a shop with a 15-day no-questions-asked return policy.

I got much better grades on mathematical courses such as theory of
computation taken in my mid-50's than I did on mathematics courses I
took in my late teens. I'm sure some of the difference is grade
inflation, but the camera helped a lot, by letting me listen and
think in lectures. Pity digital cameras didn't exist in 1967 :-(

Patricia

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