Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : Thomas Hawtin
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 02:46 am

clemenr@wmin.ac.uk wrote:
> Thomas Hawtin wrote:
> 
>>clemenr@wmin.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>>>In response to Thomas, it's very easy to say that if the lectures were
>>>slightly different then everybody would suddenly attend.
>>
>>I'm trying to say that, in my experience, traditional lectures are
>>entirely pointless.
> 
> 
> In which way. Given the teaching model I use, I do see people walk into

In that the same length of time spent with a standard text book (and a 
syllabus) would be more productive. It only requires that the student 
can read. That's not my preferred method of learning, but even that is 
significantly more effective than traditional lectures.

> It also disrupts looking at a fly walk across the ceiling. Taking notes
> implies a minimum amount of attention being paid to what is being said.
>>From my own experience of being a student up to this year attending a
> colleague's lectures and taking notes as an exercise, I know that it's
> entirely possible to stay plugged into what is being said and take
> quality notes.

Possible, but far from ideal. It's possible to program with a telephone 
conversation going on immediately behind, but I don't recommend it.

Tom Hawtin
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Unemployed English Java programmer
http://jroller.com/page/tackline/

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