Slide design

[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Some professors seem to think that lecturing about material that isn't
> presented anywhere else will force students to attend class.  But in my
> experience it also creates a class that takes notes furiously rather than
> engaging the material and asking questions.  Overall, I think it's a
> counterproductive strategy.

In my experience, the lack of a textbook for the material was mostly the 
result of the professor generating his own material and thinking the 
existing textbooks were all inadequate.