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The problem with laptops is keyboard noise. Compare note taking with keyboard typing in a class with several dozen people and you will see noise is a big probl
by Htsthbjig 12y ago
The problem with laptops is keyboard noise.
Compare note taking with keyboard typing in a class with several dozen people and you will see noise is a big problem if you are the teacher.
I personally believe the best solution is audio record anything the teacher says, automatically transcribe it and just draw diagrams and stuff.
But it will take some time before people start doing it.
- existencebox 12y agoI realize this is one of the "better" examples, but it's certainly close to home for HN, but would you really argue that recorded audio and drawn diagrams are more useful for CS/algorithms courses than some typed snippets and pseudocode? That was at least where having a laptop in class really paid off for me.
- BruceIV 12y agoDifferent people process information differently; for me seeing an abstract diagram of say, a B-Tree, would be more useful than a pseudo-code overview of the structure (at least first - the code might be useful once I had an grasp of the idea from the diagram). That's just me, though, different people learn differently.