Slide design

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from BCS (ao at pathlink.com)'s article
> Reply to Walter,
> > 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.
> >
> The next step (down) from that is the class where the professor wrote the
> text book. That's a bad thing because if you don't understand the lecture,
> the book won't help

My Physics courses were like this, and it was incredibly frustrating.  I think
it was probably the reason that Physics at my Uni was reputed to be so
difficult.