Writing code on a whiteboard is something I'm perversely good at. It's because I'm a teacher and not a developer, and I often end up shoving quick Python or Pse

Writing code on a whiteboard is something I'm perversely good at. It's because I'm a teacher and not a developer, and I often end up shoving quick Python or Pseudocode algorithms up on my classroom whiteboard. I also encourage my students to code on whiteboards. I have a class set of mini-whiteboards that they can use at their desks to jot down bits of code, flowcharts or just their thoughts. I've noticed when touring tertiary academic institutions (Edinburgh School of Informatics for instance), that every room and office has whiteboards filled with scrawled code. So maybe this is just a practice from academia that has trickled down into industry.